About the Authors

Emilio Mezzenga

Contributed equally to this work with: Emilio Mezzenga, Vincenzo D’Errico, Anna Sarnelli, Lidia Strigari, Marcello Benassi

emilio.mezzenga@irst.emr.it

Affiliation Medical Physics Department, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, FC, Italy

Vincenzo D’Errico

Contributed equally to this work with: Emilio Mezzenga, Vincenzo D’Errico, Anna Sarnelli, Lidia Strigari, Marcello Benassi

Affiliation Medical Physics Department, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, FC, Italy

Anna Sarnelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Emilio Mezzenga, Vincenzo D’Errico, Anna Sarnelli, Lidia Strigari, Marcello Benassi

Affiliation Medical Physics Department, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, FC, Italy

Lidia Strigari

Contributed equally to this work with: Emilio Mezzenga, Vincenzo D’Errico, Anna Sarnelli, Lidia Strigari, Marcello Benassi

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Physics and Expert Systems, Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy

Enrico Menghi

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Medical Physics Department, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, FC, Italy

Francesco Marcocci

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Medical Physics Department, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, FC, Italy

David Bianchini

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Medical Physics Department, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, FC, Italy

Marcello Benassi

Contributed equally to this work with: Emilio Mezzenga, Vincenzo D’Errico, Anna Sarnelli, Lidia Strigari, Marcello Benassi

Affiliation Medical Physics Department, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, FC, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: E. Mezzenga. Performed the experiments: E. Mezzenga. Analyzed the data: E. Menghi FM AS DB VD. Wrote the paper: MB LS AS.