About the Authors

Hung-Wen Kao

Affiliations Department of Radiology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Kwo-Whei Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Kwo-Whei Lee, Chin-San Liu

94692@cch.org.tw (KWL); liu48111@gmail.com (CSL)

Affiliations Department of Medical Imaging, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan, Vascular and Genomic Center, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan

Chen-Ling Kuo

Affiliation Vascular and Genomic Center, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan

Ching-Shan Huang

Affiliation Vascular and Genomic Center, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan

Wan-Min Tseng

Affiliation Vascular and Genomic Center, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan

Chin-San Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Kwo-Whei Lee, Chin-San Liu

94692@cch.org.tw (KWL); liu48111@gmail.com (CSL)

Affiliations Vascular and Genomic Center, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan, Department of Neurology, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Integrative Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Ching-Po Lin

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Life Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HWK KWL CSL. Performed the experiments: KWL CLK CSL. Analyzed the data: HWK CLK CSH WMT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CSL CPL. Wrote the paper: HWK KWL CLK.