About the Authors

Kenichi Odaka

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

Ichio Aoki

aoki@nirs.go.jp

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

Junji Moriya

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Kaoru Tateno

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Hiroyuki Tadokoro

Affiliation Department of Bio-Medical Engineering, Tokai University, Shizuoka, Japan

Jeff Kershaw

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

Tohru Minamino

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Toshiaki Irie

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

Toshimitsu Fukumura

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

Issei Komuro

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Tsuneo Saga

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KO IA IK TS. Performed the experiments: KO JM KT HT TM. Analyzed the data: KO IA JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KT. Wrote the paper: KO IA JM JK TM TS. Conceived and designed the experiments (SPECT): TI TF.