About the Authors
- Linbo Liu
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Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Kengyeh K. Chu
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Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Grace H. Houser
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Bradford J. Diephuis
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Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Yao Li
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Affiliation Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Eric J. Wilsterman
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Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Suresh Shastry
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Affiliation Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Gregory Dierksen
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Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Susan E. Birket
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Marina Mazur
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Affiliation Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Suzanne Byan-Parker
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- William E. Grizzle
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Eric J. Sorscher
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Affiliations Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Steven M. Rowe
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Contributed equally to this work with: Steven M. Rowe, Guillermo J. Tearney
* E-mail: smrowe@uab.edu (SMR); gtearney@partners.org (GJT)
Affiliations Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Guillermo J. Tearney
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Contributed equally to this work with: Steven M. Rowe, Guillermo J. Tearney
* E-mail: smrowe@uab.edu (SMR); gtearney@partners.org (GJT)
Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The following authors declare that they have filed a patent application related to the application of μOCT technology to airways: Linbo Liu, Kengyeh K. Chu, Grace H. Houser, Bradford J. Diephuis, Eric J. Wilsterman, Gregory Dierksen, Eric J. Sorscher, Steven M. Rowe, and Guillermo J. Tearney. The application serial number is PCT/US12/52553, entitled “Method for functional investigation of respiratory airways and other ciliated tissues using μOCT,” filed August 27, 2012. No financial benefit has yet been derived from this application by any author. 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: GJT SMR LL EJS. Performed the experiments: LL KKC GHH BJD YL EJW SS GD SEB MM SBP. Analyzed the data: GJT SMR LL KKC GHH BJD YL EJW SS GD SEB WEG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GJT SMR LL KKC GD MM SBP WEG EJS. Wrote the paper: GJT SMR LL KKC.