About the Authors

Jiing-Feng Lirng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiing-Feng Lirng, Po-Shan Wang

jflirng@vghtpe.gov.tw (JFL); hungchiehchen@gmail.com (HCC); bwsoong@gmail.com (BWS)

Affiliations National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Po-Shan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiing-Feng Lirng, Po-Shan Wang

Affiliations Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Municipal Gandau Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Hung-Chieh Chen

jflirng@vghtpe.gov.tw (JFL); hungchiehchen@gmail.com (HCC); bwsoong@gmail.com (BWS)

Affiliations National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Radiology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Bing-Wen Soong

jflirng@vghtpe.gov.tw (JFL); hungchiehchen@gmail.com (HCC); bwsoong@gmail.com (BWS)

Affiliations Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Wan Yuo Guo

Affiliations National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsiu-Mei Wu

Affiliations National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Cheng-Yen Chang

Affiliations National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JFL PSW HCC BWS. Performed the experiments: JFL PSW HCC BWS. Analyzed the data: HCC PSW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HCC PSW. Wrote the paper: HCC. Research projects organization: WYG HMW BWS HCC JFL CYC.