About the Authors
- Rashedul Hoque
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Current address: Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK
Affiliation Centre for Biomedical Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
- Srdjan Cirovic
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Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Centre for Biomedical Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
- Michael Pycraft Hughes
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Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: f.labeed@uaeu.ac.ae (FHL); Michael.hughes@ku.ac.ae (MPH)
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Fatima H. Labeed
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: f.labeed@uaeu.ac.ae (FHL); Michael.hughes@ku.ac.ae (MPH)
Affiliation Department of Biology, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE
Competing Interests
Author MPH is co-inventor of the 3DEP instrument used in this work and a director of the company that manufactures it. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.