Kimura, Konobu http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5479-4609
Tabe, Yoko http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3734-0346
Ai, Tomohiko
Takehara, Ikki
Fukuda, Hiroshi
Takahashi, Hiromizu
Naito, Toshio
Komatsu, Norio
Uchihashi, Kinya
Ohsaka, Akimichi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Internal funding
internal funding
Article History
Received: 6 June 2019
Accepted: 29 August 2019
First Online: 16 September 2019
Competing Interests
: The Department of Next Generation of Hematology Laboratory Medicine at Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine has been endowed by Sysmex (Kobe, Japan) to develop and validate new diagnostic technology and to conduct academic research in hematology through collaborations. KK, IT, and KU are employees of Sysmex. The study was performed by scientifically proper methods without any bias.