About the Authors

Nikhil N. Mutyal

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Andrew Radosevich

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Ashish K. Tiwari

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, NorthShore University Healthsystems, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Yolanda Stypula

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Ramesh Wali

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, NorthShore University Healthsystems, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Dhananjay Kunte

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, NorthShore University Healthsystems, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Hemant K. Roy

h-roy@northwestern.edu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, NorthShore University Healthsystems, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Vadim Backman

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

Drs. Backman and Roy are co-founders/shareholders of American BioOptics LLC and Nanocytomics LLC. All other authors have declared no conflicts of interest. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HKR VB NNM AKT. Performed the experiments: NNM AR YS. Analyzed the data: NNM AR YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AKT RW DK YS. Wrote the paper: NNM HKR VB.