Nakai, Yasushi
Iemura, Yusuke
Miyasaka, Toshiteru
Hori, Shunta
Miyake, Makito
Marugami, Nagaaki
Fujimoto, Kiyohide
Tanaka, Nobumichi
Article History
Received: 16 February 2022
Revised: 7 June 2022
Accepted: 22 June 2022
First Online: 28 July 2022
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the IRB and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The institutional review board of Nara Medical University approved this study (reference number 2632). As all data for this study were obtained through retrospective chart reviews, the IRB was obtained without patients’ informed consent.
: The institutional review board waived the need to obtain informed consent because of the anonymity and the retrospective nature of the study.
: Nobumichi Tanaka is affiliated with an endowed chair funded by Nihon Medi-Physics Co. Other authors, Yasushi Nakai, Yusuke Iemura, Toshiteru Miyasaka, Shunta Hori, Makito miyake, Nagaaki Marugami, and Kiyohide Fujimoto, have no conflict of interest.