About the Authors

Darin P. Clark

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for In Vivo Microscopy, Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America

Cristian T. Badea

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

cristian.badea@duke.edu

Affiliation Center for In Vivo Microscopy, Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America

Competing Interests

This work was made possible by the loan of a PILATUS3 CdTe 300K photon counting x-ray detector from Dectris AG of Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland (https://www.dectris.com/). There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.