About the Authors

Needa A. Virani

Contributed equally to this work with: Needa A. Virani, Olivia J. Kelada

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

navirani@bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Olivia J. Kelada

Contributed equally to this work with: Needa A. Virani, Olivia J. Kelada

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sijumon Kunjachan

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alexandre Detappe

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts, United States of America

Jihun Kwon

Roles Data curation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Jennifer Hayashi

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Nanomedicine Innovation Center and Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ana Vazquez-Pagan

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Nanomedicine Innovation Center and Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Douglas E. Biancur

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts, United States of America

Thomas Ireland

Roles Methodology

Affiliation LA-ICP-MS and ICP-ES Laboratories, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rajiv Kumar

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Nanomedicine Innovation Center and Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Srinivas Sridhar

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Nanomedicine Innovation Center and Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

G. Mike Makrigiorgos

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ross I. Berbeco

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.