Class Of Warrant Or Right, Warrants Issued

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Class Of Warrant Or Right, Warrants Issued, Price Per Share

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Estimated Proceeds From Issuance Of Warrants

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Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
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Number of securities into which the class of warrant or right may be converted. For example, but not limited to, 500,000 warrants may be converted into 1,000,000 shares.

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The number of shares issued or sold by the subsidiary or equity method investee per stock transaction.

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Per share amount received by subsidiary or equity investee for each share of common stock issued or sold in the stock transaction.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Number of non-option equity instruments exercised by participants.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
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Stockholders' Equity - January 2020 Equity Offering (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands	1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended
	Jan. 31, 2020	Mar. 31, 2023	Mar. 31, 2022
Jan. 2020 Investor Warrants
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Sale of common stock (in shares)	688,360
Sale of common stock (USD per share)	$ 3.37	$ 3.3700
Securities called by warrants (in shares)	688,360
Purchase price (USD per share)	$ 0.625
Warrants issued (in shares)		187,734	187,734
Institutional Investor
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Exercise price of common stock (USD per share)	$ 3.37
January 2020 Warrants
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Securities called by warrants (in shares)	48,185
Exercise price of common stock (USD per share)	$ 4.99
January 2020 Equity Offering
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Exercise price of common stock (USD per share)		$ 3.67
Warrants issued (in shares)		229,414	229,414
Estimated proceeds from issuance of warrants		$ 800
Issuance of common stock upon the exercise of warrants (in shares)		0	0