About the Authors

Xiao-Jun Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Jun Li, Yan-Cheng Ye

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Validation

anglweli@qq.com (XJL); jiaming.wu@chmsc.com (JMW)

Affiliation Heavy Ion Center of Wuwei Cancer Hospital; Gansu Wuwei Academy of Medical Sciences; Gansu Wuwei Tumor Hospital, Wuwei City, Gansu province, China

Yan-Cheng Ye

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Jun Li, Yan-Cheng Ye

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Heavy Ion Center of Wuwei Cancer Hospital; Gansu Wuwei Academy of Medical Sciences; Gansu Wuwei Tumor Hospital, Wuwei City, Gansu province, China

Yan-Shan Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

‡ YSZ and JMW authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Heavy Ion Center of Wuwei Cancer Hospital; Gansu Wuwei Academy of Medical Sciences; Gansu Wuwei Tumor Hospital, Wuwei City, Gansu province, China

Jia-Ming Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

anglweli@qq.com (XJL); jiaming.wu@chmsc.com (JMW)

‡ YSZ and JMW authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Heavy Ion Center of Wuwei Cancer Hospital; Gansu Wuwei Academy of Medical Sciences; Gansu Wuwei Tumor Hospital, Wuwei City, Gansu province, China, Department of Medical Physics, Chengde Medical University, Chengde City, Hebei Province, China, Department of Radiation Oncology, Yee Zen General Hospital, Tao Yuan City, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.