About the Authors

Huaising C. Ko

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

Allison R. Powers

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

Ren-dih Sheu

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

Sarah L. Kerns

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Barry S. Rosenstein

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

Stephen C. Krieger

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

Waleed F. Mourad

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, Mount Sinai at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, Albert Einstein School of Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Kenneth S. Hu

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, Mount Sinai at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Vishal Gupta

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

Richard L. Bakst

Richard.Bakst@mountsinai.org

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HCK RLB SCK. Performed the experiments: HCK RLB VG SLK RS ARP. Analyzed the data: ARP RS SLK RLB HCK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BSR SLK RS ARP VG RLB. Wrote the paper: HCK ARP RS SLK BRS SCK WFM KSH VG RLB.