About the Authors

Hisashi Nagai

nagai@legalmed.jp

Affiliations Department of Forensic Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Forensic Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Ichiro Kuwahira

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Tokai University Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Daryl O. Schwenke

Affiliation Department of Physiology-Heart Otago, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Hirotsugu Tsuchimochi

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Physiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka, Japan

Akina Nara

Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tadakatsu Inagaki

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Physiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka, Japan

Sayoko Ogura

Affiliations Department of Forensic Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Yutaka Fujii

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Physiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka, Japan

Keiji Umetani

Affiliation Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Hyogo, Japan

Tatsuo Shimosawa

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Ken-ichi Yoshida

Affiliations Department of Forensic Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Forensic Medicine, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

James T. Pearson

Affiliations Monash Biomedical Imaging Facility and Department of Physiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Australian Synchrotron, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Koichi Uemura

Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Mikiyasu Shirai

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Physiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HN IK MS. Performed the experiments: HN DOS HT AN TI SO YF K. Umetani. Analyzed the data: HN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HN DOS HT AN TI SO YF. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: HN IK DOS HT AN TI SO YF TS KY JTP K. Uemura MS.