Hanaoka, Jun
Yoden, Makoto
Hayashi, Kazuki
Shiratori, Takuya
Okamoto, Keigo
Kaku, Ryosuke
Kawaguchi, Yo
Ohshio, Yasuhiko
Sonoda, Akinaga
Funding for this research was provided by:
Konica Minolta, Inc.
Article History
Received: 21 September 2020
Accepted: 31 January 2021
First Online: 9 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed in this study were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the ethics committee and national research committee and in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. The Institutional Review Board of Shiga University of Medical Science approved this study (CRB 5180008; 10 October 2017). The study was also registered as a clinical trial (UMIN000029716).
: Written informed consent was obtained from each participant in this study.
: JH received a research grant from Konica Minolta, Inc. The remaining authors (MY, KH, TS, KO, RK, YK, YO, and AK) have no potential conflicts of interest related with this article.