About the Authors

Noriyuki Kashiyama

Affiliation Dept. Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Shigeru Miyagawa

Affiliation Dept. Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Satsuki Fukushima

Affiliation Dept. Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Takuji Kawamura

Affiliation Dept. Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Ai Kawamura

Affiliation Dept. Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Shohei Yoshida

Affiliation Dept. Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Akima Harada

Affiliation Dept. Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Tadashi Watabe

Affiliations Dept. Nuclear Medicine and Tracer Kinetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, PET Molecular Imaging Center, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Yasukazu Kanai

Affiliation Dept. Molecular Imaging in Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Koichi Toda

Affiliation Dept. Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Jun Hatazawa

Affiliations Dept. Nuclear Medicine and Tracer Kinetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, PET Molecular Imaging Center, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Yoshiki Sawa

sawa-p@surg1.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Dept. Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NK SM SF. Data curation: NK AH TK AK SY. Formal analysis: NK, TW. Funding acquisition: SM SF KT YS. Investigation: NK TK AK SY. Methodology: NK SM SF TW YK. Project administration: SM SF KT YS JH. Resources: NK. Software: NK TW. Supervision: SM SF KT YS JH. Visualization: NK TW. Writing – original draft: NK TW YK. Writing – review & editing: SM SF YS.