About the Authors
- John A. Ronald
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Affiliations Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Lorena Cusso
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Affiliation Departamento de Bioingeniería e Ingeniería Aeroespacial, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain
- Hui-Yen Chuang
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Affiliations Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Xinrui Yan
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Affiliations Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Anca Dragulescu-Andrasi
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Affiliations Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Sanjiv Sam Gambhir
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* E-mail: sgambhir@stanford.edu
Affiliations Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors declare the following provisional patent related to the submitted manuscript: Application Number: 61734005; Title: Development of Non-Integrative Replicating Minicircles for Safe Reporter Gene Imaging of Cell-Based Therapies. 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: JAR XY AD SSG. Performed the experiments: JAR LC HC XY AD. Analyzed the data: JAR LC HC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAR. Wrote the paper: JAR LC AD SSG.