About the Authors

Le-Hang Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Le-Hang Guo, Hui-Jun Fu

Affiliation Department of Medical Ultrasound, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tenth People’s Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Hui-Xiong Xu

xuhuixiong@hotmail.com (H-XX); pengai@hotmail.com (AP)

Affiliation Department of Medical Ultrasound, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tenth People’s Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Hui-Jun Fu

Contributed equally to this work with: Le-Hang Guo, Hui-Jun Fu

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tenth People’s Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Ai Peng

xuhuixiong@hotmail.com (H-XX); pengai@hotmail.com (AP)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tenth People’s Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Yi-Feng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Medical Ultrasound, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tenth People’s Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Lin-Na Liu

Affiliation Department of Medical Ultrasound, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tenth People’s Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HXX. Performed the experiments: AP HJF LHG. Analyzed the data: HJF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP. Wrote the paper: LHG HXX YFZ LNL AP.