About the Authors
- Taha M. Mehemed
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Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
- Yasutaka Fushimi
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* E-mail: yfushimi@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
- Tomohisa Okada
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Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
- Akira Yamamoto
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Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
- Mitsunori Kanagaki
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Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
- Aki Kido
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Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
- Koji Fujimoto
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Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
- Naotaka Sakashita
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Affiliation Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, MRI Systems Development Department Otawara-shi, Tochigi, Japan
- Kaori Togashi
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Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
Competing Interests
This study was partly supported by Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, the employer of Naotaka Sakashita who has a joint patent application about this research with Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors. The details of patent application is as follows: “MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS” “Japanese patent application No. 2013-170529.”
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YF TMM. Performed the experiments: YF AK KF. Analyzed the data: TO TMM AY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK TO NS. Wrote the paper: YF TMM KT.