About the Authors

Jing Ren

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Ren, Fang Wang

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xian, China

Fang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Ren, Fang Wang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xian, China

Guangquan Wei

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xian, China

Yong Yang

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xian, China

Ying Liu

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xian, China

Mengqi Wei

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xian, China

Yi Huan

huanyi3000@163.com (YH); zhuoli-zhang@northwestern.edu (ZZ)

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xian, China

Andrew C. Larson

Affiliations Department of Radiology, Northwestern University. Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Zhuoli Zhang

huanyi3000@163.com (YH); zhuoli-zhang@northwestern.edu (ZZ)

Affiliations Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xian, China, Department of Radiology, Northwestern University. Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JR FW ZZ YH. Performed the experiments: JR FW GW ZZ MW YY YL. Analyzed the data: JR FW GW ZZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JR FW ZZ YH. Wrote the paper: JR FW ZZ YH AL.