About the Authors

Hoa V. Pham

hoapham2@illinois.edu

Affiliation Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Basanta Bhaduri

Affiliation Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Krishnarao Tangella

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Christie Clinic and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Catherine Best-Popescu

Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Gabriel Popescu

Affiliation Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Provided clinical expertise: KT CBP. Provided blood samples: KT. Prepared blood samples: CBP. Designed and built the optical imaging system: BB HP GP. Conceived and designed the experiments: HP KT GP. Performed the experiments: HP GP. Analyzed the data: HP GP. Wrote the paper: HP GP.