About the Authors

Noriyuki Fujima

Noriyuki.Fujima@mb9.seikyou.ne.jp

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

Tomohiro Sakashita

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

Akihiro Homma

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

Kenji Hirata

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

Tohru Shiga

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

Kohsuke Kudo

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

Hiroki Shirato

Affiliations Department of Radiation Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan, The Global Station for Quantum Medical Science and Engineering, Global Institution for collaborative research and education, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NF. Data curation: NF TSa AH. Formal analysis: TSa AH. Funding acquisition: NF. Investigation: NF KK. Methodology: NF. Project administration: NF HS. Resources: NF TSa. Software: KH. Supervision: NF HS. Validation: KH TSh. Visualization: NF. Writing – original draft: NF KH. Writing – review & editing: NF TSa AH KH TSh KK HS.