About the Authors

Weijun Xuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Weijun Xuan, Fatma Vatansever

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

Fatma Vatansever

Contributed equally to this work with: Weijun Xuan, Fatma Vatansever

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

Liyi 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, Department of Infectious Diseases, First Affiliated College & Hospital, 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 Burn, Jinan Center Hospital, Jinan, China

Yi Xuan

Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, School of Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

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

Takahiro Ando

Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan

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

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 of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

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, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WX QW TA MRH. Performed the experiments: WX LH QW YX TX TA YYH. Analyzed the data: WX LH TD TA MRH. Wrote the paper: WX FV MRH.