About the Authors

Ulas Bagci

ulas.bagci@nih.gov

Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease Imaging (CIDI), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jianhua Yao

Affiliation Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kirsten Miller-Jaster

Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease Imaging (CIDI), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Xinjian Chen

Affiliation School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou City, China

Daniel J. Mollura

Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease Imaging (CIDI), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Critically revised the manuscript: XC DJM JY. Conceived and designed the experiments: UB DJM. Performed the experiments: UB KMJ XC. Analyzed the data: JY DJM UB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC UB. Wrote the paper: UB KMJ DJM.