About the Authors

Vasiliki Economopoulos

Affiliations Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Imaging Research Group, Robarts Research Institute at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Jennifer C. Noad

Affiliations Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Imaging Research Group, Robarts Research Institute at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Shruti Krishnamoorthy

Affiliations Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Imaging Research Group, Robarts Research Institute at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Brian K. Rutt

Affiliation Radiology Department, Richard M. Lucas Center for Imaging, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Paula J. Foster

pfoster@imaging.robarts.ca

Affiliations Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Imaging Research Group, Robarts Research Institute at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VE PF. Performed the experiments: VE JN SK. Analyzed the data: VE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BR PF. Wrote the paper: VE PF.