About the Authors

Yukie Yoshii

yukiey@nirs.go.jp.

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

Hiroki Matsumoto

Affiliation Research Centre, Nihon Medi-Physics Co., Ltd., Chiba, Japan

Mitsuyoshi Yoshimoto

Affiliation Division of Functional Imaging, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Chiba, Japan

Takako Furukawa

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

Yukie Morokoshi

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

Chizuru Sogawa

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

Ming-Rong Zhang

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

Hidekatsu Wakizaka

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

Hiroshi Yoshii

Affiliation Emergency Radiation Exposure Medical Care Research Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

Yasuhisa Fujibayashi

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

Tsuneo Saga

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

HM is an employee of Nihon Medi-Physics Co., Ltd. All the other authors disclose no potential conflicts of interest. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY. Performed the experiments: YY HM MY TF YM CS MRZ HW. Analyzed the data: YY HM MY HW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HY. Wrote the paper: YY HM MY TF YF TS.