About the Authors

Senthil Selvaraj

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kevin Liu

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Alan M. Robinson

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Victoria A. Epstein

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

David B. Conley

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Robert C. Kern

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Claus-Peter Richter

CRI529@northwestern.edu

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, The Hugh Knowles Center, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CPR DBC RCK SS. Performed the experiments: SS KL AMR VAE CPR. Analyzed the data: SS VAE AMR CPR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DBC CPR. Wrote the paper: SS AMR VAE CPR.