About the Authors

Hassan M. Fathallah-Shaykh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hfshaykh@uabmc.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Andrew DeAtkine

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Elizabeth Coffee

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Elias Khayat

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Asim K. Bag

Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Imaging, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Xiaosi Han

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Paula Province Warren

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Markus Bredel

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

John Fiveash

Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

James Markert

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Nidhal Bouaynaya

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, United States of America

Louis B. Nabors

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: HFS and NB are co-founders of MRIMATH LLC. LBN serves on the scientific advisory boards for Abbvie, Blue Earth Diagnostics, Karyopharm, and Kiyatec and the Data safety and monitoring board for UPENN and Ziopharm. JM is 1) the Recipient of funds related to structured buyout of an oncolytic virus company, Catherex, Inc, by Amgen. 2) Equity holder in an oncolytic virus company, Treovor, Inc. 3) Equity holder in an oncolytic virus company, Aettis, Inc. 4) Board Member, UAB Health System and UAB Health Services Foundation. 5) Research grant holder from NIH and Gateway to conduct clinical trials for malignant glioma using oncolytic viruses. these funding sources were not involved in the study under submission. 6) Employment: UAB SOM and UAB Health Services Foundation. 7) Patent applications for oncolytic virus and administration techniques thereof not applicable to this paper.