About the Authors

Kuniyuki Morimoto

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Toshiyuki Ozawa

ozawa@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Kunio Awazu

Affiliation Medical Beam Physics Laboratory, Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka, Japan

Nobuhisa Ito

Affiliation Medical Beam Physics Laboratory, Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka, Japan

Norihiro Honda

Affiliation Medical Beam Physics Laboratory, Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka, Japan

Sohkichi Matsumoto

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Daisuke Tsuruta

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KM TO KA NI DT. Performed the experiments: KM TO NH. Analyzed the data: KM TO DT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KM TO KA SM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: KM TO DT.