About the Authors

Guixin Shi

Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Wenjin Cui

Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Michael Benchimol

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Yu-Tsueng Liu

Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Robert F. Mattrey

Affiliations Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Rajesh Mukthavaram

Affiliation Neuro-Oncology Program, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Santosh Kesari

Affiliations Neuro-Oncology Program, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sadik C. Esener

Affiliations Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of NanoEngineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Dmitri Simberg

dsimberg@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Solid Tumor Therapeutics Program, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Discussion of data: R. Mattrey. Conceived and designed the experiments: DS YTL MB GS. Performed the experiments: DS MB GS WC R. Mukthavaram. Analyzed the data: DS YTL MB SE GS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK MB YTL R. Mattrey. Wrote the paper: DS GS YTL.