About the Authors

Naoki Okumura

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan, Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

EunDuck P. Kay

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan

Makiko Nakahara

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan

Junji Hamuro

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Shigeru Kinoshita

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Noriko Koizumi

nkoizumi@mail.doshisha.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NO EPK MN JH SK NK. Performed the experiments: NO MN. Analyzed the data: NO EPK MN JH SK NK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NO SK NK. Wrote the paper: NO EPK NK.