About the Authors

Fatma M. Youniss

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Center for Molecular Imaging, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Gobalakrishnan Sundaresan

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Center for Molecular Imaging, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Laura J. Graham

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Li Wang

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Center for Molecular Imaging, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Collin R. Berry

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Center for Molecular Imaging, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Gajanan K. Dewkar

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Center for Molecular Imaging, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Purnima Jose

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Center for Molecular Imaging, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Harry D. Bear

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Jamal Zweit

jzweit@vcu.edu

Affiliations Department of Radiology, Center for Molecular Imaging, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FMY GS HDB JZ. Performed the experiments: FMY GS LJG LW CRB GKD PJ. Analyzed the data: FMY GS CRB LW LJG PJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HDB JZ. Wrote the paper: FMY GS JZ.