About the Authors

Aditya V. S. Ponnaluri

Contributed equally to this work with: Aditya V. S. Ponnaluri, Luigi E. Perotti

Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Luigi E. Perotti

Contributed equally to this work with: Aditya V. S. Ponnaluri, Luigi E. Perotti

Affiliation Department of Radiological Sciences and Department of Bioengineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Michael Liu

Affiliation Department of Medicine - Division of Cardiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Zhilin Qu

Affiliation Department of Medicine - Division of Cardiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

James N. Weiss

Affiliation Department of Medicine - Division of Cardiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Daniel B. Ennis

Affiliation Department of Radiological Sciences and Department of Bioengineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

William S. Klug

Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Alan Garfinkel

agarfinkel@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine - Division of Cardiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AVSP LEP ML ZQ JNW DBE WSK AG. Performed the experiments: AVSP LEP. Analyzed the data: AVSP LEP ML ZQ JNW DBE WSK AG. Wrote the paper: AVSP LEP ML ZQ JNW DBE WSK AG. Designed and wrote the software used in analysis: AVSP LEP WSK DBE.