About the Authors

Sushravya Raghunath

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Srinivasan Rajagopalan

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Ronald A. Karwoski

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Fabien Maldonado

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Tobias Peikert

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Teng Moua

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Jay H. Ryu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Brian J. Bartholmai

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Richard A. Robb

robb.richard@mayo.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Srinivasan Rajagopalan, Brian J. Bartholmai, Ronald A. Karwoski and Richard A. Robb have a patent pending with the title: Systems and Methods for Analyzing in Vivo Tissue Volumes Using Medical Imaging Data, application number: PCT/US2012/036802 and filing date: May 7, 2012. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: S. Raghunath S. Rajagopalan RAR. Performed the experiments: S. Raghunath S. Rajagopalan RAK BJB . Analyzed the data: S. Raghunath S. Rajagopalan RAK FM TP TM JHR BJB RAR. Wrote the paper: S. Raghunath S. Rajagopalan RAK FM TP TM JHR BJB RAR . Software implementation: S. Raghunath S. Rajagopalan RAK.