About the Authors
- Takahiro Ando
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Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
- Weijun Xuan
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Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Otolaryngology, Traditional Chinese Medical University of Guangxi, Nanning, China
- Tao Xu
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Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Laboratory of Anesthesiology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
- Tianhong Dai
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Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Sulbha K. Sharma
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Affiliation Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Gitika B. Kharkwal
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Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Ying-Ying Huang
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Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Aesthetic and Plastic Center, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
- Qiuhe Wu
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Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, Shandong University, Jinan Central Hospital, Jinan, China
- Michael J. Whalen
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Shunichi Sato
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Affiliation Division of Biomedical Information Sciences, National Defense Medical College Research Institute, Tokorozawa, Japan
- Minoru Obara
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Affiliation Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
- Michael R. Hamblin
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* E-mail: hamblin@helix.mgh.harvard.edu
Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TA WX MJW SS MO MRH. Performed the experiments: TA TX TD SKS GBK YYH QW. Analyzed the data: TA WX TD MRH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJW. Wrote the paper: TA MRH.