About the Authors

Takahiro Ando

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

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

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

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

Affiliation Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gitika B. Kharkwal

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

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

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

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shunichi Sato

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Information Sciences, National Defense Medical College Research Institute, Tokorozawa, Japan

Minoru Obara

Affiliation Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan

Michael R. Hamblin

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.