About the Authors

Chi-Hung Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors contributed equally and are co-first authors.

Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Joseph Tung-Chieh Chang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors contributed equally and are co-first authors.

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Proton and Radiation Therapy Center, Chang Gung Medical Foundation, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Taipei Chang Gung Head & Neck Oncology Group, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkou Medical Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Tsong-Hai Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Pi-Yueh Chang

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chien-Hung Chang

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Hsiu-Chuan Wu

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Ting-Yu Chang

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Kuo-Lun Huang

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chien-Yu Lin

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Proton and Radiation Therapy Center, Chang Gung Medical Foundation, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Taipei Chang Gung Head & Neck Oncology Group, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkou Medical Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Particle Physics and Beam Delivery Core Laboratory of Institute for Radiological Research, Chang Gung University/Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Kang-Hsing Fan

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Proton and Radiation Therapy Center, Chang Gung Medical Foundation, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Taipei Chang Gung Head & Neck Oncology Group, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkou Medical Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chan-Lin Chu

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yeu-Jhy Chang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

yjc0601@cgmh.org.tw

Affiliations Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Chang Gung Medical Education Research Centre, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.