Kobashi, Hidenaga http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0767-4214
Tsubota, Kazuo
Aoki, Shunsuke
Kobayashi, Masaaki
Sumali, Brian
Mitsukura, Yasue
Funding for this research was provided by:
Tokyo Metropolitan Small and Medium Enterprise Support Center
Article History
Received: 15 September 2023
Revised: 8 January 2024
Accepted: 19 February 2024
First Online: 26 February 2024
Declarations
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: All procedures performed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the ethics committee of Keio University (No. 2021–105).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Dr. Kobashi is a consultant to Tsubota Laboratory, Inc., and has a patent regarding the mentioned device. Dr. Tsubota is the CEO and has a patent regarding the device. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: The sponsor had no role in the study design; data collection, analysis or interpretation; writing of the report; or the decision to submit the article for publication.
: Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.