About the Authors

Masaaki Tanaka

masa-t@msic.med.osaka-cu.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Abeno-ku, Osaka City, Osaka, Japan

Yoshihito Shigihara

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Abeno-ku, Osaka City, Osaka, Japan

Masami Funakura

Affiliation Digital & Network Technology Development Center, Panasonic Corporation, Kadoma City, Osaka, Japan

Etsuko Kanai

Affiliation Digital & Network Technology Development Center, Panasonic Corporation, Kadoma City, Osaka, Japan

Yasuyoshi Watanabe

Affiliations Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Abeno-ku, Osaka City, Osaka, Japan, Center for Molecular Imaging Science, RIKEN, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Etsuko Kanai and Masami Funakura are employees of Panasonic Corporation. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Masaaki Tanaka, Yoshihito Shigihara, and Yasuyoshi Watanabe declare no conflict of interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT YS MF EK YW. Performed the experiments: MT YS MF EK YW. Analyzed the data: MT YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT YS MF EK YW. Wrote the paper: MT YW.