About the Authors

Ann S. Choe

annschoe@gmail.com

Affiliations Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, International Center for Spinal Cord Injury, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Craig K. Jones

Affiliations Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Suresh E. Joel

Affiliations Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

John Muschelli

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Visar Belegu

Affiliations International Center for Spinal Cord Injury, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Brian S. Caffo

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Martin A. Lindquist

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Peter C. M. van Zijl

Affiliations Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

James J. Pekar

Affiliations Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Pekar serves as Manager of the F.M. Kirby Research Center, which receives research support from Philips Healthcare, which makes the MRI scanner used for this study. Dr. van Zijl is a paid lecturer for Philips and the inventor of technology that is licensed to Philips. This arrangement has been approved by Johns Hopkins University in accordance with its conflict of interest policies. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC SJ JP. Performed the experiments: AC CJ SJ. Analyzed the data: AC SJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AC JM BC ML. Wrote the paper: AC SJ VB BC ML PvZ JP.