About the Authors
- Xin Cai
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Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Cai, Li Li
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Li Li
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Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Cai, Li Li
Current address: Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Arie Krumholz
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Zijian Guo
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Todd N. Erpelding
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Affiliation Philips Research North America, Briarcliff Manor, New York, United States of America
- Chi Zhang
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Yu Zhang
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Current address: Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Younan Xia
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Current address: Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Lihong V. Wang
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* E-mail: lhwang@biomed.wustl.edu
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: LVW has a financial interest in Microphotoacoustics, Incorporated, and Endra, Incorporated. Todd N. Erpelding is an employee of Philips Research North America. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LL XC AK LVW. Performed the experiments: LL XC AK ZG TNE CZ. Analyzed the data: XC LL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ YX. Wrote the paper: XC LL LVW.