About the Authors

Henry L. Fu

henry.fu@duke.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jenna L. Mueller

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Melodi J. Whitley

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Diana M. Cardona

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Rebecca M. Willett

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

David G. Kirsch

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

J. Quincy Brown

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Nimmi Ramanujam

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Ramanujam has founded a company called Zenalux Biomedical and she and other team members have developed technologies related to this work where the investigators or Duke University may benefit financially if this system is sold commercially. Dr. Kirsch consults for and owns stock in Lumicell Diagnoistics, which is a company commercializing intraoperative imaging systems. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors declare no competing financial interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HF JM MW DK JB NR. Performed the experiments: HF JM MW. Analyzed the data: HF JM DC RW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW DK RW. Wrote the paper: HF.