About the Authors

Zhiqun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiqun Wang, Jianli Wang

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Jianli Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiqun Wang, Jianli Wang

Affiliation Center for NMR Research, Department of Radiology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Han Zhang

Affiliation Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders and the Affiliated Hospital, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Robert Mchugh

Affiliation Center for NMR Research, Department of Radiology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xiaoyu Sun

Affiliation Center for NMR Research, Department of Radiology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kuncheng Li

likuncheng@xwh.ccmu.edu.cn (KL); qyang@hmc.psu.edu (QXY)

Affiliations Department of Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Diseases (Capital Medical University), Ministry of Education, Beijing, China, Beijing Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China

Qing X. Yang

likuncheng@xwh.ccmu.edu.cn (KL); qyang@hmc.psu.edu (QXY)

Affiliations Center for NMR Research, Department of Radiology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery (George M. Leader Foundation Alzheimer’s Laboratory), The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KL QXY. Performed the experiments: ZW. Analyzed the data: JW HZ RM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XS HZ. Wrote the paper: ZW JW.