About the Authors

Moran Amit

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Michael T. Collins

ziv@baseofskull.org (ZG); mc247k@nih.gov (MTC)

Affiliation Skeletal Clinical Studies Unit, Craniofacial and Skeletal Diseases Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Edmond J. FitzGibbon

Affiliation National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

John A. Butman

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Radiology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Dan M. Fliss

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Ziv Gil

ziv@baseofskull.org (ZG); mc247k@nih.gov (MTC)

Affiliation Head and Neck Surgery Unit and the Laboratory for Applied Cancer Research, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA ZG MTC. Performed the experiments: MA ZG MTC EJF JAB. Analyzed the data: MA ZG MTC. Wrote the paper: MA ZG MTC. Critical revision, final drafting and text approval: MA ZG EJF JAB DMF MTC.