About the Authors

Seán Fitzgerald

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

Sean.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie

Affiliations CÚRAM–Centre for Research in Medical Devices, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland, Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Physiology, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

Shunli Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Daying Dai

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Dennis H. Murphree Jr.

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

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Abhay Pandit

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CÚRAM–Centre for Research in Medical Devices, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

Andrew Douglas

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations CÚRAM–Centre for Research in Medical Devices, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland, Department of Physiology, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

Asim Rizvi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Ramanathan Kadirvel

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Michael Gilvarry

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cerenovus, Ballybrit, Galway, Ireland

Ray McCarthy

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cerenovus, Ballybrit, Galway, Ireland

Manuel Stritt

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Orbit Image Analysis, Binningen, Switzerland

Matthew J. Gounis

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiology, New England Center for Stroke Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Waleed Brinjikji

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

David F. Kallmes

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Karen M. Doyle

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations CÚRAM–Centre for Research in Medical Devices, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland, Department of Physiology, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests; Manuel Stritt is an author of the opensource software Orbit Image Analysis and declares a Non-Financial competing interest, Ray McCarthy and Michael Gilvarry are employees of Cerenovus, Galway, Ireland. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All remaining authors declare no Funding, Employment or Personal financial interests in relation to the work described herein.