About the Authors

Vijaya B. Kolachalama

vbk@mit.edu

Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Center, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Evan G. Levine

Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Center, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elazer R. Edelman

Affiliations Biomedical Engineering Center, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VBK ERE. Performed the experiments: VBK EGL. Analyzed the data: VBK ERE. Wrote the paper: VBK ERE.