About the Authors

Rongfeng Qi

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Clinical School of Medical College, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Long Jiang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Long Jiang Zhang, Guangming Lu

kevinzhanglongjiang@yahoo.com.cn (LJZ); cjr.luguangming@vip.163.com (GL)

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Clinical School of Medical College, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Qiang Xu

Affiliation Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sichuan Province, China

Jianhui Zhong

Affiliation Department of Imaging Sciences, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Shengyong Wu

Affiliation Medical Imaging Institute of Tianjin, Tianjin, China

Zhiqiang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Clinical School of Medical College, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Wei Liao

Affiliation Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sichuan Province, China

Ling Ni

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Clinical School of Medical College, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Zongjun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Clinical School of Medical College, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Huafu Chen

Affiliation Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sichuan Province, China

Yuan Zhong

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Clinical School of Medical College, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Qing Jiao

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Clinical School of Medical College, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Xingjiang Wu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Clinical School of Medical College, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Xinxin Fan

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Clinical School of Medical College, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Yijun Liu

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida McKnight Brain Institute, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Guangming Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Long Jiang Zhang, Guangming Lu

kevinzhanglongjiang@yahoo.com.cn (LJZ); cjr.luguangming@vip.163.com (GL)

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Clinical School of Medical College, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RQ LJZ JZ SW GL. Performed the experiments: RQ LN XF. Analyzed the data: RQ QX WL YZ QJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Zhiqiang Zhang Zongjun Zhang HC XW YL. Wrote the paper: RQ.