About the Authors

Inga B. Fricke

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Inga.Fricke@rmp.uhn.ca

Affiliations TECHNA Institute for the Advancement of Technology for Health, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Raquel De Souza

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations TECHNA Institute for the Advancement of Technology for Health, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lais Costa Ayub

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Giulio Francia

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Biological Sciences Platform, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Robert Kerbel

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biological Sciences Platform, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

David A. Jaffray

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations TECHNA Institute for the Advancement of Technology for Health, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jinzi Zheng

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

Affiliations TECHNA Institute for the Advancement of Technology for Health, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: DAJ and JZ are shareholders of Nanovista Inc. Nanovista Inc. is in the process of licensing IP rights for the patent portfolio containing CF800 from the University Health Network (Compositions and methods for multimodal imaging, US9393326B2, CA2596595C, EP1848464B1, WO2006084382A1). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.