[J. Innov. Opt. Health Sci., Vol. 10, No. 4 (2017) 1730008] The “received date" of this paper should be 4 April 2017 instead of 3 June 2017. The manuscr ipt was originally submitted on 4 April 2017 and the revised version was submitted on 3 June 2017

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