About the Authors

Klazina Kooiman

k.kooiman@erasmusmc.nl

Affiliations Center for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Tom van Rooij

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Bin Qin

Affiliation Center for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Frits Mastik

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Hendrik J. Vos

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Laboratory of Acoustical Wavefield Imaging, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands

Michel Versluis

Affiliation Physics of Fluids Group, MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine and MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands

Alexander L. Klibanov

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Nico de Jong

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Laboratory of Acoustical Wavefield Imaging, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands

Flordeliza S. Villanueva

Affiliation Center for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xucai Chen

Affiliation Center for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KK XC FSV TvR HJV ALK NdJ. Formal analysis: KK TvR HJV. Investigation: KK XC. Resources: KK TvR FM HJV BQ ALK. Writing – original draft: KK TvR ALK. Writing – review & editing: KK TvR MV HJV NdJ FSV XC.