About the Authors

Yali Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yali Yang, Li Zhang

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Li Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yali Yang, Li Zhang

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Xinfang Wang

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Qing Lü

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Lin He

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Jing Wang

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Bin Wang

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Ling Li

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Li Yuan

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Jinfeng Liu

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Shuping Ge

xiemx64@126.com(MX); shuping.ge@drexelmed.edu(SG)

Affiliations Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, Hubei, China, The Heart Center, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children and Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Mingxing Xie

xiemx64@126.com(MX); shuping.ge@drexelmed.edu(SG)

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YLY MXX. Data curation: YLY LZ. Formal analysis: JFL. Funding acquisition: YLY LZ MXX. Investigation: YLY LH JW. Project administration: XFW QL. Resources: BW LL LY. Supervision: MXX SG. Validation: YLY. Visualization: LZ. Writing – original draft: YLY. Writing – review & editing: YLY SG.