About the Authors

Michael Schär

michael.schar@gmail.com

Affiliations Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Division of Magnetic Resonance Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Clinical Science MRI, Philips Healthcare, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Haiyan Ding

Affiliations Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Daniel A. Herzka

Affiliation Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

MS was an employee of Philips Healthcare until May 2014, the manufacturer of equipment used in this study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS DH. Performed the experiments: DH HD. Analyzed the data: MS DH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS DH. Wrote the paper: MS HD DH.