About the Authors
- Richard Ho
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Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Ho, Mohummad M. Siddiqui
Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Mohummad M. Siddiqui
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Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Ho, Mohummad M. Siddiqui
Affiliations Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Arvin K. George
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Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Thomas Frye
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Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Amichai Kilchevsky
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Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Michele Fascelli
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Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Nabeel A. Shakir
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Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Raju Chelluri
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Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Steven F. Abboud
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Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Annerleim Walton-Diaz
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Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Sandeep Sankineni
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Affiliation Molecular Imaging Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Maria J. Merino
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Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Baris Turkbey
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Affiliation Molecular Imaging Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Peter L. Choyke
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Affiliation Molecular Imaging Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Bradford J. Wood
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Affiliation Center for Interventional Oncology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Peter A. Pinto
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* E-mail: pintop@mail.nih.gov
Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, the Center for Cancer Research, and the Center for Interventional Oncology. NIH and Philips Healthcare/Invivo Corp. have a cooperative research and development agreement. NIH and Philips share intellectual property in the field. This research was also made possible through the National Institutes of Health Medical Research Scholars Program, a public-private partnership supported jointly by the NIH and generous contributions to the Foundation for the NIH from Pfizer Inc., The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. and Mr. and Mrs. Joel S. Marcus, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, as well as other private donors. For a complete list, please visit the Foundation website at: http://fnih.org/what-we-do/current-education-and-training-programs/mrsp. These funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This funding did not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RH MMS AKG TF PAP. Performed the experiments: RH AKG TF AK PAP. Analyzed the data: RH MMS MF NAS RC SFA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RH MMS TF AW-D SS MJM BT PLC BJW. Wrote the paper: RH MMS.