About the Authors

Hongmei Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Histology and Embryology, College of Basic Medicine, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China, Department of Ultrasound, Zhengzhou Central Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Yonghua Bi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Interventional Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Siyeong Ju

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Linxia Gu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Xiaoyan Zhu

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

zhxy@zzu.edu.cn (ZXY); dreamweaver08@126.com (HXW)

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, College of Basic Medicine, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Xinwei Han

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

zhxy@zzu.edu.cn (ZXY); dreamweaver08@126.com (HXW)

Affiliation Department of Interventional Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.