About the Authors

Peter M. Ferguson

pferguson@malaghan.org.nz

Affiliations Malaghan Institute of Medical Research and School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

Kirk W. Feindel

Affiliation National Research Council Institute for Biodiagnostics (Atlantic), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Angela Slocombe

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Wellington Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand

Matthew MacKay

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Wellington Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand

Trudy Wignall

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Wellington Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand

Brett Delahunt

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

Richard D. Tilley

Affiliation School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Ian F. Hermans

Affiliation Malaghan Institute of Medical Research and School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PMF KWF RDT AS IFH. Performed the experiments: PMF AS MM TW. Analyzed the data: PMF AS MM TW KF BD RDT IFH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PMF AS MM TW BD RDT IFH. Wrote the paper: PMF KWF BD IFH.