About the Authors

Ketan Gajjar

gajjarkb@gmail.com (KG); f.martin@lancaster.ac.uk (FLM)

Affiliations Centre for Biophotonics, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Preston, United Kingdom

Abdullah A. Ahmadzai

Affiliation Centre for Biophotonics, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

George Valasoulis

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

Júlio Trevisan

Affiliation Centre for Biophotonics, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Christina Founta

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Preston, United Kingdom, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

Maria Nasioutziki

Affiliation Second Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Hippokration Hospital Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Aristotelis Loufopoulos

Affiliation Second Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Hippokration Hospital Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Maria Kyrgiou

Affiliations Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea - Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Sofia Melina Stasinou

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea - Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Petros Karakitsos

Affiliation Department of Cytopathology, “Attikon” Hospital, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Evangelos Paraskevaidis

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

Bianca Da Gama-Rose

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Preston, United Kingdom

Pierre L. Martin-Hirsch

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Preston, United Kingdom

Francis L. Martin

gajjarkb@gmail.com (KG); f.martin@lancaster.ac.uk (FLM)

Affiliation Centre for Biophotonics, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KG GV CF EP PLM FLM. Performed the experiments: KG AAA GV CF MN AL MK SMS PK EP BD. Analyzed the data: KG AAA JT GV CF MN AL MK SMS FLM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GV JT CF MN AL MK SMS PK EP BD PLM FLM. Wrote the paper: KG AAA GV JT CF MN AL MK SMS PK EP BD PLM FLM.