About the Authors

Zachary J. Smith

Affiliation Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Kaiqin Chu

Affiliation Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Alyssa R. Espenson

Affiliation California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California, United States of America

Mehdi Rahimzadeh

Affiliation California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Amy Gryshuk

Affiliation Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Marco Molinaro

Affiliation Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Denis M. Dwyre

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Stephen Lane

Affiliations Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Dennis Matthews

Affiliations Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu

swachsmann@ucdavis.edu

Affiliations Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SW-H SL MM DM DMD ZJS KC. Performed the experiments: SW-H ZJS KC ARE MM. Analyzed the data: ZJS KC SW-H MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DMD. Wrote the paper: ZJS SW-H AG.