About the Authors

Gregory M. Shackleford

shacklef@usc.edu

Affiliations Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics, The Saban Research Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Radiology, The Saban Research Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Xiang-He Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiang-He Shi, Kimberly S. Swanson

Affiliation Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics, The Saban Research Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kimberly S. Swanson

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiang-He Shi, Kimberly S. Swanson

Affiliations Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics, The Saban Research Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Radiology, The Saban Research Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Min Y. Mahdi

Affiliation Department of Radiology, The Saban Research Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ignacio Gonzalez-Gomez

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shahab Asgharzadeh

Affiliation Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics, The Saban Research Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Massimo D’Apuzzo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Anat Erdreich-Epstein

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics, The Saban Research Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Rex A. Moats

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Radiology, The Saban Research Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GMS. Performed the experiments: GMS XHS KSS MYM SA. Analyzed the data: GMS XHS KSS MYM IGG SA MDA AEE RAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GMS SA RAM. Principal writers of the paper: GMS AEE. Revised the paper: GMS XHS KSS MYM IGG SA MDA AEE RAM.