About the Authors

Akihiro Homma

ak-homma@med.hokudai.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Hiromitsu Hatakeyama

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Takatsugu Mizumachi

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Satoshi Kano

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Tomohiro Sakashita

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Rinnosuke Kuramoto

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Yuji Nakamaru

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Rikiya Onimaru

Affiliation Department of Radiation Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Kazuhiko Tsuchiya

Affiliation Department of Radiation Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Daisuke Yoshida

Affiliation Department of Radiation Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Koichi Yasuda

Affiliation Department of Radiation Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Hiroki Shirato

Affiliation Department of Radiation Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Satoshi Fukuda

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AH HH SF. Data curation: AH RK. Formal analysis: AH HH. Investigation: AH HH TM SK TS RK YN RO KT DY KY. Methodology: AH HH. Supervision: SF. Validation: HS SF. Visualization: AH YN. Writing – original draft: AH YN. Writing – review & editing: AH YN.