About the Authors

Paul T. Winnard Jr

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

Affiliation Division of Cancer Imaging Research, The Russell H Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Farhad Vesuna

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cancer Imaging Research, The Russell H Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sankar Muthukumar

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Division of Cancer Imaging Research, The Russell H Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Venu Raman

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

vraman2@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Division of Cancer Imaging Research, The Russell H Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interest: VR is the Founder and Director of Natsar Pharmaceuticals Inc. The authors would like to declare the following patents associated with this research: VR holds a patent on the composition of RK-33 (US patent # 8,518,901). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.