About the Authors

Dingtai Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Dingtai Wei, Chuancheng Ren

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Stroke Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China, Department of Radiology, Fujian Medical University Ningde Hospital, Fujian, China

Chuancheng Ren

Contributed equally to this work with: Dingtai Wei, Chuancheng Ren

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Stroke Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Shanghai No.5 Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Xiaoyuan Chen

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine (LOMIN), National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Heng Zhao

hzhao@stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Stroke Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ. Performed the experiments: DW CR. Analyzed the data: DW CR. Wrote the paper: HZ. Critically revised the manuscript: XC.