About the Authors
- Dae Woo Park
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Affiliation Center for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Andrea Sebastiani
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Affiliation Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Choon Hwai Yap
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Marc A. Simon
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Affiliations Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh and UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Heart, Lung, and Blood Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Kang Kim
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* E-mail: kangkim@upmc.edu
Affiliations Center for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh and UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Heart, Lung, and Blood Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Competing Interests
We received funding from Samsung GRO Award, this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: KK CY MS. Data curation: DP AS CY KK MS. Formal analysis: DP AS CY. Funding acquisition: KK MS. Investigation: DP CY KK MS. Methodology: DP CY AS. Project administration: KK MS. Resources: KK MS. Software: CY DP. Supervision: KK MS. Validation: DP AS. Visualization: DP CY. Writing – original draft: DP KK. Writing – review & editing: DP KK MS CY AS.