About the Authors

Sunkuk Kwon

sunkuk.kwon@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliation Center for Molecular Imaging, The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Germaine D. Agollah

Affiliations Center for Molecular Imaging, The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Grace Wu

Affiliation Center for Molecular Imaging, The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Eva M. Sevick-Muraca

Affiliation Center for Molecular Imaging, The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

E. M. S. has royalty and equity interest in NIRF Imaging, Inc. which is commercializing near-infrared fluorescence lymphatic imaging. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK. Performed the experiments: GDA SK. Analyzed the data: GDA GW SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GDA GW SK. Wrote the paper: GDA EMS SK.