About the Authors

Qingqing Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Qingqing Cao, Madhumita Mahalanabis

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Madhumita Mahalanabis

Contributed equally to this work with: Qingqing Cao, Madhumita Mahalanabis

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jessie Chang

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brendan Carey

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christopher Hsieh

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ahjegannie Stanley

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christine A. Odell

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Patricia Mitchell

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

James Feldman

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nira R. Pollock

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Catherine M. Klapperich

catherin@bu.edu

Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QC MM CAO PM JF NP CMK. Performed the experiments: QC MM JC BC CH AS CAO PM. Analyzed the data: QC MM JC CAO PM JF NP CMK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CAO PM JF NP CMK. Wrote the paper: QC MM CAO PM JF NP CMK.