Chen, Jiawei
Chen, Haibin
Zhong, Zichun
Wang, Zhuoyu
Hrycushko, Brian
Zhou, Linghong
Jiang, Steve
Albuquerque, Kevin
Gu, Xuejun
Zhen, Xin http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5037-2801
Funding for this research was provided by:
Varian Medical Systems (OTD-109235)
National Science Foundation (ACI-1657364)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81728016 and 81571771)
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2015A030313302)
Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province (2015A020214013)
Article History
Received: 17 October 2017
Accepted: 18 June 2018
First Online: 6 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This retrospective patient study was approved by Human Research Protection Program Office (HRPPO)/Institutional Review Board (IRB) of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. All methods in this study were conducted in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. Considering that this is not a therapeutical treatment study, our institutional review board waived the need for obtaining written informed consent from the participants.
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