About the Authors

Gang Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Gang Sun, Shaowen Qian

cjr.sungang@vip.163.com (GS); zhaolunlun@yahoo.com.cn (LZ)

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Jinan Military General Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China

Shaowen Qian

Contributed equally to this work with: Gang Sun, Shaowen Qian

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Jinan Military General Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China

Qingjun Jiang

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Jinan Military General Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China

Kai Liu

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Jinan Military General Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China

Bo Li

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Jinan Military General Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China

Min Li

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Jinan Military General Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China

Lun Zhao

cjr.sungang@vip.163.com (GS); zhaolunlun@yahoo.com.cn (LZ)

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Jinan Military General Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China

Zhenyu Zhou

Affiliation McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Karen M. von Deneen

Affiliation McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Yijun Liu

Affiliation McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GS SQ LZ. Performed the experiments: QJ KL BL. Analyzed the data: SQ BL ZZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML KMD YL. Wrote the paper: GS SQ.