About the Authors

Yasaman Ardeshirpour

Affiliation National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Victor Chernomordik

Affiliation National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Rafal Zielinski

Affiliations National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Jacek Capala

Affiliation National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Gary Griffiths

Affiliation Imaging Probe Development Center, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Olga Vasalatiy

Affiliation Imaging Probe Development Center, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Aleksandr V. Smirnov

Affiliation National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jay R. Knutson

Affiliation National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ilya Lyakhov

Affiliation National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Samuel Achilefu

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Amir Gandjbakhche

amir@helix.nih.gov

Affiliation National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Moinuddin Hassan

Affiliation National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YA RZ JC AG MH VC JRK. Performed the experiments: YA RZ MH AS. Analyzed the data: YA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GG SA OV IL. Wrote the paper: YA AG.