About the Authors

Wei Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Li, Justin Alexander Long

liw5@uthscsa.edu (WL); duongt@uthscsa.edu (TQD)

Affiliations Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Justin Alexander Long

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Li, Justin Alexander Long

Affiliation Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Lora Talley Watts

Affiliations Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Cellular and Structure Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Zhao Jiang

Affiliation Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Qiang Shen

Affiliation Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Yunxia Li

Affiliation Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Timothy Q. Duong

liw5@uthscsa.edu (WL); duongt@uthscsa.edu (TQD)

Affiliations Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Department of Veterans Affairs, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WL JAL TQD. Performed the experiments: WL JAL LTW ZJ QS YL. Analyzed the data: WL. Wrote the paper: WL TDQ.