Takahashi, Yuka
Higaki, Fumiyo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4498-8546
Nakamura, Yuko
Higaki, Toru
Sugaya, Akiko
Mitsuhashi, Toshiharu
Kitayama, Takahiro
Morimitsu, Yusuke
Inoue, Tomohiro
Akagi, Noriaki
Matsui, Yusuke
Iguchi, Toshihiro
Awai, Kazuo
Hiraki, Takao
Article History
Received: 8 January 2026
Accepted: 26 April 2026
First Online: 20 May 2026
Declarations
Conflict of interest: TH and YM received a grant from Canon Medical Systems outside the submitted work. The other authors have no relevant conflicts of interest to disclose.
Ethics approval: The procedures used in this study adhered to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki.
Informed consent: All procedures involving human participants were approved by the Okayama University Ethics Committee (approval numbers: K2402-016) and were conducted in accordance with the Japanese Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Biological Research Involving Human Subjects and the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients.