About the Authors
- Tim G. St. Pierre
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* E-mail: Tim.StPierre@uwa.edu.au
Affiliation School of Physics, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
- Michael J. House
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Affiliations School of Physics, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, Resonance Health Ltd, Claremont, Western Australia, Australia
- Sander J. Bangma
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Affiliation Resonance Health Ltd, Claremont, Western Australia, Australia
- Wenjie Pang
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Affiliation Resonance Health Ltd, Claremont, Western Australia, Australia
- Andrew Bathgate
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Affiliation Resonance Health Ltd, Claremont, Western Australia, Australia
- Eng K. Gan
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Affiliations School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Gastroenterology, Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
- Oyekoya T. Ayonrinde
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Affiliations School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Gastroenterology, Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia
- Prithi S. Bhathal
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Andrew Clouston
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Affiliation Centre for Liver Disease Research, School of Medicine Translational Research Institute, The University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia
- John K. Olynyk
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Affiliations School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Gastroenterology, Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia, Institute for Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
- Leon A. Adams
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Affiliations School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, Liver Transplant Unit, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following competing interests: Tim St Pierre holds shares in Resonance Health Ltd and consults to Resonance Health Ltd; Michael House is employed part time by Resonance Health Ltd; Sander Bangma and Wenjie Pang are employed by Resonance Health Ltd; Andrew Bathgate was employed by Resonance Health Ltd. Tim St Pierre, Michael House and Sander Bangma are applicants on a patent (No. 2012350165) for measuring liver fat. HepaFat-Scan® is owned and marketed by Resonance Health Ltd. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: TGS MJH JKO LAA. Data curation: TGS MJH. Formal analysis: TGS MJH. Investigation: WP PSB AC JKO. Methodology: TGS MJH. Project administration: TGS MJH. Resources: SJB AB EKG OTA PSB AC JKO LAA. Software: WP. Supervision: TGS MJH JKO LAA. Validation: PSB AC. Visualization: TGS. Writing - original draft: TGS MJH JKO LAA. Writing - review & editing: TGS MJH SJB WP AB EKG OTA PSB AC JKO LAA. Clinical assessment and review of subjects: EKG OTA JKO LAA.