About the Authors

Guiyang Hao

Contributed equally to this work with: Guiyang Hao, Yong Du

Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Yong Du

Contributed equally to this work with: Guiyang Hao, Yong Du

Affiliation Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Xin J. Zhou

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Jianfei Guo

Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Xiankai Sun

orhan.oz@utsouthwestern.edu (OKO); chandra.mohan@utsouthwestern.edu (CM); xiankai.sun@utsouthwestern.edu (XS)

Affiliations Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Chandra Mohan

orhan.oz@utsouthwestern.edu (OKO); chandra.mohan@utsouthwestern.edu (CM); xiankai.sun@utsouthwestern.edu (XS)

Affiliation Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Orhan K. Öz

orhan.oz@utsouthwestern.edu (OKO); chandra.mohan@utsouthwestern.edu (CM); xiankai.sun@utsouthwestern.edu (XS)

Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XS CM OKÖ. Performed the experiments: GH YD XJZ JG. Analyzed the data: GH YD XS CM OKÖ. Wrote the paper: GH YD XS CM OKÖ.