About the Authors

Long Jiang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Long Jiang Zhang, Rongfeng Qi

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

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

Rongfeng Qi

Contributed equally to this work with: Long Jiang Zhang, Rongfeng Qi

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

Jianhui Zhong

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

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, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China

Gang Zheng

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

Guang Ming Lu

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

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LJZ GML. Performed the experiments: LJZ RFQ GZ GML. Analyzed the data: LJZ QX RFQ JHZ GZ GML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RFQ JHZ QX. Wrote the paper: LJZ RFQ JHZ GZ GML.