About the Authors

Justin Y. Kwan

kwanjy@ninds.nih.gov

Affiliation National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Suh Young Jeong

Affiliation Molecular Medicine Program, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peter Van Gelderen

Affiliation Advanced MRI Section, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Han-Xiang Deng

Affiliation Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Martha M. Quezado

Affiliation National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Laura E. Danielian

Affiliation National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

John A. Butman

Affiliation Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lingye Chen

Affiliation National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Elham Bayat

Affiliation Department of Neurology, George Washington University, Washington, D. C., United States of America

James Russell

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Teepu Siddique

Affiliation Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jeff H. Duyn

Affiliation Advanced MRI Section, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Tracey A. Rouault

Affiliation Molecular Medicine Program, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mary Kay Floeter

Affiliation National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JYK PVG LED JAB JHD MKF. Performed the experiments: JYK SJ PVG HD LED LC MMQ EB JR TS. Analyzed the data: JYK SJ PVG HD LED JAB LC TS JHD TAR MKF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MKF PVG JHD TAR HD TS. Wrote the paper: JYK LED MKF JHD JAB SJ. Pathology evaluation: MMQ. Clinical evaluation: JYK MKF JR EB.