About the Authors

Leo Garcia Flores

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging, Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging Research (CABIR), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Susanna Bertolini

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging, Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging Research (CABIR), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hsin Hsin Yeh

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging, Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging Research (CABIR), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Daniel Young

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging, Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging Research (CABIR), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Uday Mukhopadhyay

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging, Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging Research (CABIR), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ashutosh Pal

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging, Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging Research (CABIR), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yunming Ying

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Andrei Volgin

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging, Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging Research (CABIR), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Aleksandr Shavrin

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging, Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging Research (CABIR), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Suren Soghomonyan

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging, Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging Research (CABIR), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

William Tong

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging, Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging Research (CABIR), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

William Bornmann

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mian M. Alauddin

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging, Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging Research (CABIR), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Craig Logsdon

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Juri G. Gelovani

jgelovani@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging, Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging Research (CABIR), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JGG. Performed the experiments: LGF SB HHY DY UM AP YY AV AS SS WT JGG. Analyzed the data: LGF SB HHY DY AS SS WT JGG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DY UM AP YY AV WGB MA CL JGG. Wrote the paper: LGF SB JGG.