Nagashima, Ryunosuke
Kato, Kumiko https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4172-3443
Mizumoto, Keitaro
Mori, Sumine
Kurose, Daisuke
Fujimoto, Iroha
Matsubara, Hisashi
Kudo, Hidetaka
McCulloch, Daphne L.
Kondo, Mineo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Mie University
Article History
Received: 17 November 2025
Accepted: 29 April 2026
First Online: 8 May 2026
Declarations
Conflict of interest: Daphne McCulloch is the Editor-in-Chief of Documenta Ophthalmologica but had no involvement in the peer-review process of this article. Mineo Kondo is an Associate Editor of Documenta Ophthalmologica but had no involvement in the peer-review process of this article. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Statement of human rights: All procedure performed in study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
Statement on the welfare of animals: No animal were used in this study.
Informed consent: Written informed consent was obtained from all 11 participants before enrollment in the study. In addition, written informed consent for publication of the photograph in Fig. was obtained from the subject who served as the model.