About the Authors
- Pramod K. Avti
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Contributed equally to this work with: Pramod K. Avti, Song Hu, Christopher Favazza
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America
- Song Hu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Pramod K. Avti, Song Hu, Christopher Favazza
Affiliation Optical Imaging Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Christopher Favazza
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Contributed equally to this work with: Pramod K. Avti, Song Hu, Christopher Favazza
Affiliation Optical Imaging Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Antonios G. Mikos
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Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- John A. Jansen
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Affiliation Department of Periodontology and Biomaterials, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Kenneth R. Shroyer
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America
- Lihong V. Wang
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* E-mail: lhwang@biomed.wustl.edu (LVW); balaji.sitharaman@stonybrook.edu (BS)
Affiliation Optical Imaging Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Balaji Sitharaman
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* E-mail: lhwang@biomed.wustl.edu (LVW); balaji.sitharaman@stonybrook.edu (BS)
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
LVW has a financial interest in Microphotoacoustics, Inc. and Endra, Inc., which, however, did not support this work. 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: PKA BS. Performed the experiments: PKA SH CF BS. Analyzed the data: PKA SH CF AGM JAJ KRS LVW BS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PKA SH CF AGM JAJ KRS LVW BS. Wrote the paper: PKA SH CF KRS LVW BS.