Nakajo, Masatoyo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9224-1730
Kawakami, Hirofumi
Kiyao, Yutaro
Hirahara, Mitsuho
Katsuki, Akie
Tani, Atushi
Eizuru, Yukari
Takumi, Koji
Kamimura, Kiyohisa
Kanzaki, Fumiko
Yoshiura, Takashi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (KAKEN-HI, Grant number 22K07700)
Article History
Received: 20 March 2025
Accepted: 21 July 2025
First Online: 5 August 2025
Declarations
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: This retrospective study was approved by the ethics committee on epidemiological studies, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, which waived the requirement for informed consent (No.220102). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was waived by the institutional review board for this retrospective study. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict interest except employment by GE HealthCare Japan (Hirofumi Kawakami and Akie Katsuki). They were not involved in the results analysis.