About the Authors

John M. Pisciotta

Contributed equally to this work with: John M. Pisciotta, Yongjin Zou

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yongjin Zou

Contributed equally to this work with: John M. Pisciotta, Yongjin Zou

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ilia V. Baskakov

baskakov@umaryland.edu

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IVB. Performed the experiments: JMP YZ. Analyzed the data: JMP YZ IVB. Wrote the paper: JMP IVB.