About the Authors

Mie Kunio

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

miek@mit.edu, miekunio@alum.mit.edu

Affiliation Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gee Wong

Roles Data curation

Affiliation CBSET, Inc., Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter M. Markham

Roles Data curation

Affiliation CBSET, Inc., Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elazer R. Edelman

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, CBSET, Inc., Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

CBSET is a non-profit animal research center that performs animal experimentation under AAALAC guidelines and GLP regulations and has no vested interest in the results of this work. Peter Markham is President, Elazer R. Edelman is Chairman of the board and Gee Wong was an employee of CBSET. Mie Kunio has no affiliation with CBSET. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.