Acknowledgement
This research was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean Government (The Ministry of Science and ICT) (Grant No. NRF 2019R 1F1A 1054681). This paper was also financially supported by Sungkyun Research Fund, Sungkyunkwan University (2016) and Samsung Changwon Hospital Research Fund (2020). The authors would like to thank Young Min Kim, M.D. and Mi-Ok Sunwoo, M.D. (Department of Radiology, Samsung Changwon Hospital), and Sun Sup Choi, M.D. (Department of Radiology, Dong-A University Medical Center) for reviewing neuroradiological images; Young Wook Kim, M.D. (Department of Biostatistics, Samsung Changwon Hospital) for assistance with statistical analysis, and Tae Gyu Kim, M.D. (Department of Radiation Oncology, Samsung Changwon Hospital), and Young Min Choi, M.D. (Department of Radiation Oncology, Dong-A University Medical Center) for applying the radiotherapy detailed in this work.
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