About the Authors
- Hemant K. Roy
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* E-mail: hkroy@bu.edu
¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Charles B. Brendler
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¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- Hariharan Subramanian
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¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- Di Zhang
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Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- Charles Maneval
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Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- John Chandler
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Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- Leah Bowen
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Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- Karen L. Kaul
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- Brian T. Helfand
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- Chi-Hsiung Wang
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- Margo Quinn
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- Jacqueline Petkewicz
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- Michael Paterakos
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- Vadim Backman
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Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
Competing Interests
Drs. Roy, Subramanian and Backman are co-founders of Nanocytomics LLC and managed by the conflict of interest committees of Boston University and Northwestern University. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HR CB HS KK BH VB. Performed the experiments: HS DZ CM JC LB KK BH MQ JP MP. Analyzed the data: HS DZ CM JC LB CW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS DZ CM JC LB CW KK. Wrote the paper: HR CB HS VB.