About the Authors

Yang Hou

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Jiahe Zheng

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Yuke Wang

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Mei Yu

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Mani Vembar

Affiliation CT Clinical Science Philips Healthcare, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Qiyong Guo

guoqy@vip.sina.com

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Competing Interests

MV is an employee of Philips Healthcare. However, all other authors had complete unrestricted access to the study data at all stages of the study and controlled the inclusion of all data and information that might have represented a conflict of interest otherwise.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QG YH. Performed the experiments: YH JZ YW MY. Analyzed the data: YH JZ YW MY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ YW MY. Wrote the paper: YH QG MV.