About the Authors

Zongjin Li

Affiliations Department of Radiology and Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Nankai University School of Medicine, Tianjin, China

Kitchener D. Wilson

Affiliations Department of Radiology and Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), 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

Bryan Smith

Affiliation Department of Radiology and Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Daniel L. Kraft

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

Fangjun Jia

Affiliation Department of Radiology and Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Mei Huang

Affiliation Department of Radiology and Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Xiaoyan Xie

Affiliation Department of Radiology and Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), 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

Sanjiv S. Gambhir

Affiliation Department of Radiology and Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Irving L. Weissman

Affiliations Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Joseph C. Wu

joewu@stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Radiology and Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, 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: ZL KDW RR SSG ILW JCW. Performed the experiments: ZL KDW BRS DLK FJ MH XX. Analyzed the data: ZL KDW BRS DLK FJ MH XX JCW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BRS DLK RR SSG ILW. Wrote the paper: ZL KDW JCW.