About the Authors

Gayatri Gowrishankar

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Mohammad Namavari

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Erwan Benjamin Jouannot

Affiliation Sanofi R&D, Sanofi, Paris, France

Aileen Hoehne

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Robert Reeves

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jonathan Hardy

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Sanjiv Sam Gambhir

gayatrig@stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have a patent on the imaging probe described in the manuscript. Patent title: PROBES AND METHODS OF IMAGING A BACTERIAL INFECTION. Serial No. 14/204,402. Filed: March 11, 2014. Docket No. 221907-1950. One of the authors, Dr. Erwan Jouannot, is an employee of Sanofi Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE editorial policies and criteria. Sanjiv Sam Gambhir is on the editorial board for PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GG SSG. Performed the experiments: GG MN EBJ RR AH. Analyzed the data: GG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH. Wrote the paper: GG AH SSG.