About the Authors

Judong Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Judong Luo, Zhonghua Lu

Affiliations Department of Radiotherapy, Changzhou Tumor Hospital, Soochow University, Changzhou, China, School of Radiation Medicine and Protection and Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Zhonghua Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Judong Luo, Zhonghua Lu

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy, Changzhou Tumor Hospital, Soochow University, Changzhou, China

Xujing Lu

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy, Changzhou Tumor Hospital, Soochow University, Changzhou, China

Ling Chen

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy, Changzhou Tumor Hospital, Soochow University, Changzhou, China

Jianping Cao

Affiliation School of Radiation Medicine and Protection and Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Shuyu Zhang

Affiliation School of Radiation Medicine and Protection and Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Yang Ling

medilyn2001@yahoo.com.cn (YL); 756035311@qq.com (XZ)

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy, Changzhou Tumor Hospital, Soochow University, Changzhou, China

Xifa Zhou

medilyn2001@yahoo.com.cn (YL); 756035311@qq.com (XZ)

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy, Changzhou Tumor Hospital, Soochow University, Changzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL ZL YL XZ. Performed the experiments: JL ZL XL LC JC SZ YL XZ. Analyzed the data: JL ZL YL XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL ZL YL XZ. Wrote the manuscript: JL ZL YL XZ.