About the Authors

Hermann B. Frieboes

Contributed equally to this work with: Hermann B. Frieboes, Min Wu

hbfrie01@louisville.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Min Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hermann B. Frieboes, Min Wu

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

John Lowengrub

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Paolo Decuzzi

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Translational Imaging and Department of Nanomedicine, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Vittorio Cristini

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HF MW JL PD VC. Performed the experiments: MW. Analyzed the data: HF MW JL PD VC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL VC. Wrote the paper: HF MW JL PD VC.