About the Authors

Gayatri Gowrishankar

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Program, Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Sabine Zitzmann-Kolbe

Affiliation Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Global Drug Discovery, Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Berlin, Germany

Anitha Junutula

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Program, Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Robert Reeves

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Program, Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jelena Levi

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Program, Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ananth Srinivasan

Affiliation Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Global Drug Discovery, Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Berlin, Germany

Kjerstin Bruus-Jensen

Affiliation Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Global Drug Discovery, Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Berlin, Germany

John Cyr

Affiliation Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Global Drug Discovery, Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Berlin, Germany

Ludger Dinkelborg

Affiliation Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Global Drug Discovery, Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Berlin, Germany

Sanjiv S. Gambhir

sgambhir@stanford.edu

Affiliations Molecular Imaging Program, Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering and Materials Sciences & Engineering, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The study was funded by Bayer Schering Pharma. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GG SZ-K JL KB-J JC AS LD SSG. Performed the experiments: GG AJ RR. Analyzed the data: GG SZ-K. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GG SZ-K KB-J JC AS LD. Wrote the paper: GG SZ-K SSG.