About the Authors

Arunan Skandarajah

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Clay D. Reber

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Neil A. Switz

Affiliation Biophysics Graduate Group, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Daniel A. Fletcher

fletch@berkeley.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Biophysics Graduate Group, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Daniel Fletcher is a co-founder of CellScope, Inc., a company commercializing a cellphone-based otoscope. CellScope, Inc., neither had nor has any involvement with the project described in this paper. Daniel Fletcher and Neil Switz hold shares in CellScope, Inc. The shares belonging to Neil Switz are held by The Regents of the University of California, and disposition is determined by them according to a fixed formula. Daniel Fletcher and Neil Switz are inventors on US Patent Application 20110009163, “High Numerical Aperture Telemicroscopy Apparatus”, filed January 13, 2011. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS CDR NAS DAF. Performed the experiments: AS CDR. Analyzed the data: AS CDR NAS DAF. Wrote the paper: AS CDR NAS DAF.