About the Authors

Kiyoshi Ando

ando@ciea.or.jp

Affiliation Central Institute for Experimental Animals, Kawasakiku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Shigeru Obayashi

Affiliation Rehabilitation Center, Nippon Medical School, Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Insei, Chiba, Japan

Yuji Nagai

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

Arata Oh-Nishi

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

Takafumi Minamimoto

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

Makoto Higuchi

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

Takashi Inoue

Affiliation Central Institute for Experimental Animals, Kawasakiku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Toshio Itoh

Affiliation Central Institute for Experimental Animals, Kawasakiku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Tetsuya Suhara

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KA SO YN TS. Performed the experiments: KA SO YN TS. Analyzed the data: KA SO YN TS. Wrote the paper: KA SO YN AO TM MH T. Inoue T. Itoh TS.