About the Authors

Xiaoqiang Sun

xiaoqiangsun88@gmail.com (XS); gkulik@wakehealth.edu (GK); xizhou@wakehealth.edu (XZ)

Affiliations Department of Radiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, School of Mathematical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P. R. China

Jiguang Bao

Affiliation School of Mathematical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P. R. China

Kyle C. Nelson

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

King Chuen Li

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

George Kulik

xiaoqiangsun88@gmail.com (XS); gkulik@wakehealth.edu (GK); xizhou@wakehealth.edu (XZ)

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Xiaobo Zhou

xiaoqiangsun88@gmail.com (XS); gkulik@wakehealth.edu (GK); xizhou@wakehealth.edu (XZ)

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XS KCL GK XZ. Performed the experiments: XS. Analyzed the data: XS GK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GK. Wrote the paper: XS. Revised the manuscript: KCN GK XZ Participated in discussion: XS JB KCN GK XZ.