About the Authors

Vlad C. Sandulache

Affiliations Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yunyun Chen

Affiliation Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jaehyuk Lee

Affiliation Department of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ashley Rubinstein

Affiliation Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Marc S. Ramirez

Affiliation Department of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Heath D. Skinner

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Christopher M. Walker

Affiliation Department of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michelle D. Williams

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ramesh Tailor

Affiliation Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Laurence E. Court

Affiliation Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

James A. Bankson

Affiliation Department of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Stephen Y. Lai

SYLai@mdanderson.org

Affiliations Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VCS SYL JAB LEC HS. Performed the experiments: VCS YC JL AR LEC CMW MDW MSR RT. Analyzed the data: JL CMW VCS MDW SYL JAB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SYL LEC JAB MDW. Wrote the paper: VCS SYL JAB MSR.