About the Authors

Ian C. Lock

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

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Nathan H. Leisenring

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

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Warren Floyd

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

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, Maryland Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Eric S. Xu

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

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Lixia Luo

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

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Yan Ma

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

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Erin C. Mansell

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

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Diana M. Cardona

Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Chang-Lung Lee

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

David.Kirsch@uhn.ca (DGK); Chang-Lung.Lee@duke.edu (CLL)

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

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

David G. Kirsch

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

David.Kirsch@uhn.ca (DGK); Chang-Lung.Lee@duke.edu (CLL)

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

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: DGK is a cofounder of and stockholder in XRAD Therapeutics, which is developing radiosensitizers. DGK is a member of the scientific advisory board and owns stock in Lumicell Inc., a company commercializing intraoperative imaging technology. None of these affiliations represents a conflict of interest with respect to the work described in this manuscript. DGK is a coinventor on a patent for a handheld imaging device and is a coinventor on a patent for radiosensitizers. XRAD Therapeutics, Merck, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Varian Medical Systems provide research support to DGK, but this did not support the research described in this manuscript. The other authors have no conflicting financial interests.