About the Authors

Richard Ho

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

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

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Thomas Frye

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Amichai Kilchevsky

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Michele Fascelli

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nabeel A. Shakir

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Raju Chelluri

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Steven F. Abboud

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Annerleim Walton-Diaz

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sandeep Sankineni

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Maria J. Merino

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Baris Turkbey

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peter L. Choyke

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bradford J. Wood

Affiliation Center for Interventional Oncology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peter A. Pinto

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.