About the Authors

Efstathios Karathanasis

Current address: Department of Biomedical Engineering and Case Center for Imaging Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Leslie Chan

Affiliation Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Lohitash Karumbaiah

Affiliation Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Kathleen McNeeley

Affiliation Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Carl J. D'Orsi

Affiliation Department of Radiology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ananth V. Annapragada

Affiliation School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ioannis Sechopoulos

Affiliation Department of Radiology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ravi V. Bellamkonda

ravi@gatech.edu

Affiliation Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

Some of the nano-scale contrast agents for CT developed by the authors has been licensed by a start-up company, Marval Biosciences Inc, in which the authors have a financial interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EK RVB. Performed the experiments: EK LC LK KM IS. Analyzed the data: EK LC LK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EK LK CJD. Wrote the paper: EK CJD AVA IS RVB.