About the Authors

Yi Rong

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The Ohio State University James Cancer Hospital, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, 43210, United States of America

Josh Evans

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22903, United States of America

Meng Xu-Welliver

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The Ohio State University James Cancer Hospital, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, 43210, United States of America

Cadron Pickett

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803, United States of America

Guang Jia

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803, United States of America

Quan Chen

QC3K@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu (QC); zuo.4@osu.edu (LZ)

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22903, United States of America

Li Zuo

QC3K@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu (QC); zuo.4@osu.edu (LZ)

Affiliation Radiologic Sciences and Respiratory Therapy Division, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Biophysics Graduate Program, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, 43210, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YR. Performed the experiments: YR JE QC. Analyzed the data: YR QC LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YR QC MXW LZ. Wrote the paper: YR QC GJ CP LZ.