About the Authors

Sean C. Warren

sean.warren09@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliations Institute for Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Photonics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Anca Margineanu

Affiliation Photonics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Dominic Alibhai

Affiliations Institute for Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Photonics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Douglas J. Kelly

Affiliations Institute for Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Photonics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Clifford Talbot

Affiliation Photonics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Yuriy Alexandrov

Affiliation Photonics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Ian Munro

Affiliation Photonics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Matilda Katan

Affiliation Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Chris Dunsby

Contributed equally to this work with: Chris Dunsby, Paul M. W. French

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Paul M. W. French

Contributed equally to this work with: Chris Dunsby, Paul M. W. French

Affiliation Photonics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The historic experimental data shown in Figures 1 and 4 was acquired as part of an earlier project that was funded in part by a United Kingdom Technology Strategy Board Technology Award (CHBT/007/00030, EP/C54269X), in partnership with AstraZeneca, GE Healthcare, GSK, Kentech Instruments Ltd. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SW PMWF CD IM. Performed the experiments: SW AM DA DK. Analyzed the data: SW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW MK AM DA DK YA CT. Wrote the paper: SW PMWF CD.