About the Authors

Feng Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Cao, Roger A. Wagner, Kitchener D. Wilson

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Roger A. Wagner

Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Cao, Roger A. Wagner, Kitchener D. Wilson

Affiliation Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiology), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Kitchener D. Wilson

Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Cao, Roger A. Wagner, Kitchener D. Wilson

Affiliations Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Xiaoyan Xie

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ji-Dong Fu

Affiliation Stem Cell Program and Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Micha Drukker

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Andrew Lee

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ronald A. Li

Affiliation Stem Cell Program and Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Sanjiv S. Gambhir

Affiliations Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Irving L. Weissman

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Robert C. Robbins

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Joseph C. Wu

joewu@stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiology), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FC RW KDW RAL ILW RR JCW. Performed the experiments: FC RW KDW XX. Analyzed the data: FC RW KDW JDF MD AL RAL SSG ILW RR JCW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XX JDF MD AL RAL SSG ILW RR. Wrote the paper: RW KDW.