About the Authors

Henry Qazi

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Zhong-Dong Shi

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

John M. Tarbell

tarbell@ccny.cuny.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HQ Z-DS JMT. Performed the experiments: HQ. Analyzed the data: HQ Z-DS JMT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HQ JMT. Wrote the paper: HQ JMT.