About the Authors

Sanathana Konugolu Venkata Sekar

sanathana.konugolu@polimi.it

Affiliation Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Marco Pagliazzi

Affiliation ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain

Eugènia Negredo

Affiliations Lluita contra la Sida Foundation, Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, Badalona, Spain. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya, Vic, Barcelona, Spain

Fabrizio Martelli

Affiliation Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy

Andrea Farina

Affiliations Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Milano, Italy

Alberto Dalla Mora

Affiliation Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Claus Lindner

Affiliation ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain

Parisa Farzam

Affiliation ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain

Núria Pérez-Álvarez

Affiliations Lluita contra la Sida Foundation, Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, Badalona, Spain. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Statistics and Operations Research Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Jordi Puig

Affiliation Lluita contra la Sida Foundation, Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, Badalona, Spain. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Paola Taroni

Affiliation Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Antonio Pifferi

Affiliation Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Turgut Durduran

Affiliations ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

ICFO has equity ownership in the spin-off company HemoPhotonics S.L. HemoPhotonics did not play any role on the decision on publication, data interpretation and analysis. Potential financial conflicts of interest and objectivity of research have been monitored by ICFO’s Knowledge & Technology Transfer Department. No financial conflicts of interest were identified. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: EN TD AP PT SKVS MP CL PF. Formal analysis: SKVS MP CL. Funding acquisition: AP TD. Investigation: MP CL. Methodology: EN. Resources: MP CL FM PT AF ADM NP JP EN. Software: AF FM. Supervision: AP TD. Validation: SKVS. Visualization: SKVS. Writing – original draft: SKVS. Writing – review & editing: SKVS MP PT AP TD.