About the Authors
- Mitsue Miyazaki
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* E-mail: mmiyazaki@tmriusa.com
Affiliation MR Research, Toshiba Medical Research Institute, Vernon Hills, Illinois, United States of America
- Cheng Ouyang
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Affiliation MR Research, Toshiba Medical Research Institute, Vernon Hills, Illinois, United States of America
- Xiangzhi Zhou
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Affiliation MR Research, Toshiba Medical Research Institute, Vernon Hills, Illinois, United States of America
- James B. Murdoch
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Affiliation MR Research, Toshiba Medical Research Institute, Vernon Hills, Illinois, United States of America
- Yasutaka Fushimi
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Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Tomohisa Okada
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Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Koji Fujimoto
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Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Aki Kido
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Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Yoshiki Arakawa
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Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Susumu Miyamoto
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Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Kaori Togashi
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Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Competing Interests
Four authors (MM, CO, XZ, and JM) are employees of Toshiba Medical Research Institute USA, Inc. (TMRU), which is the affiliated company of Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (TMSC), Japan whose company funded this study. NS from TMSC has helped data collection. The authors have patent applications (by MM, CO and XZ on USA13/601,723 “AUTOMATED MRI DETECTION OF TISSUE MACROMOLECULAR T2/T2* CHARACTERISTICS USING Z-SPECTRA”; Aug, 31, 2012, 13/705,582 “AUTOMATED MRI DETECTION OF TISSUE MACROMOLECULAR T2/T2* CHARACTERISTICS USING Z-SPECTRA”; Dec. 5, 2012, and 14/470137 “MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS”; Aug. 27, 2014) for the ZAPPED technique which are still pending. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MM CO XZ YF TO. Performed the experiments: MM CO XZ YF TO KF AK YA SM KT. Analyzed the data: MM CO XZ YF TO KF AK YA SM KT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM CO XZ JM. Wrote the paper: MM CO XZ JM YF TO.