About the Authors

Lili Niu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lili Niu, Yanling Zhang

Affiliation Paul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China

Yanling Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lili Niu, Yanling Zhang

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Third affiliated hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Ming Qian

Affiliation Paul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China

Long Meng

Affiliation Paul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China

Yang Xiao

Affiliation Paul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China

Yuanyuan Wang

Affiliation Department of Electronic Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Xin Liu

Affiliation Paul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China

Rongqin Zheng

hr.zheng@siat.ac.cn (HZ); zhengrongqin@hotmail.com (RZ)

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Third affiliated hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Hairong Zheng

hr.zheng@siat.ac.cn (HZ); zhengrongqin@hotmail.com (RZ)

Affiliation Paul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LN YZ RZ HZ. Performed the experiments: LN YZ MQ. Analyzed the data: LN LM YX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LN YW XL. Wrote the paper: LN HZ.