About the Authors

Hsien-Shu Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Hsien-Shu Lin, Yunn-Jy Chen

Affiliation School of Dentistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Yunn-Jy Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hsien-Shu Lin, Yunn-Jy Chen

Affiliation School of Dentistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Jia-Da Li

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Tung-Wu Lu

twlu@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan, R.O.C., Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Hau-Hung Chang

Affiliation School of Dentistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Chih-Chung Hu

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan, R.O.C., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ming-Chih University of Science and Technology, New Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TWL YJC HSL. Performed the experiments: HSL JDL HHC. Analyzed the data: HSL JDL CCH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YJC TWL. Wrote the paper: HSL YJC JDL TWL HHC CCH.