About the Authors

Wen-Yuan Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen-Yuan Lee, Li-Min Sun

Affiliations China Medical University Hospital Taipei Branch, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine Science and School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Li-Min Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen-Yuan Lee, Li-Min Sun

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Zuoying Armed Forces General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Ming-Chia Lin

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, E-DA Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Ji-An Liang

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine Science and School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Radiation Oncology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Shih-Ni Chang

Affiliations Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Ph.D. Program for Cancer Biology and Drug Discovery, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Fung-Chang Sung

Affiliations Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Environmental Health, College of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chih-Hsin Muo

d10040@mail.cmuh.org.tw (C-HK); A17776@mail.cmuh.org (C-HM)

Affiliation Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Chia-Hung Kao

d10040@mail.cmuh.org.tw (C-HK); A17776@mail.cmuh.org (C-HM)

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine Science and School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WYL LMS CHM CHK. Performed the experiments: WYL LMS MCL JAL CHM CHK. Analyzed the data: WYL LMS SNC CHM CHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCL JAL FCS. Wrote the paper: WYL LMS MCL JAL SNC FCS CHM CHK.