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@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ tags:
   - LabVIEW
   - Windows
 authors:
-  - name: Dzhoshkun Ismail Shakir[^*]
+  - name: Dzhoshkun Ismail Shakir
     orcid: 0000-0003-3009-4178
     affiliation: 1,2,3
-  - name: Sunish Mathews[^*]
+  - name: Sunish Mathews
     orcid: 0000-0002-2289-3669
     affiliation: 3,4
   - name: Wenfeng Xia
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ date: 27 November 2018
 bibliography: paper.bib
 ---
 
-[^*]: These authors contributed equally to this paper.
-
 # Summary
 
 Research in advanced sonographic real-time clinical imaging methods such as ultrasonic needle tracking