About the Authors

Jan B. M. Warntjes

marcel.warntjes@cmiv.liu.se

Affiliations Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization, CMIV, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Clinical Physiology, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Department of Clinical Physiology, UHL, County Council of Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden

Maria Engström

Affiliations Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization, CMIV, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Radiology, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Anders Tisell

Affiliations Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization, CMIV, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Radiation Physics, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Department of Radiation Physics, UHL, County Council of Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden

Peter Lundberg

Affiliations Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization, CMIV, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Radiation Physics, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Department of Radiation Physics, UHL, County Council of Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden

Competing Interests

JBMW has read the journal’s policy and has the following conflicts: JBMW is a part-time employed at SyntheticMR AB, a software company with products in quantitative MRI. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exits. 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: JBW ME. Performed the experiments: JBW AT. Analyzed the data: JBW ME AT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JBW ME AT. Wrote the paper: JBMW ME AT PL. Contributed to the financial support in MR scanning the volunteers and patients: PL.