About the Authors

Celine Almeida

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Brain Tumor Center of Wake Forest University, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Devipriya Nagarajan

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Brain Tumor Center of Wake Forest University, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Jian Tian

Affiliation Radiation Research Laboratories, Department of Radiation Medicine, Loma Linda University and Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

Sofia Walder Leal

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Brain Tumor Center of Wake Forest University, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Kenneth Wheeler

Affiliations Department of Radiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Brain Tumor Center of Wake Forest University, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Michael Munley

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

William Blackstock

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Weiling Zhao

wzhao@wfubmc.edu

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Brain Tumor Center of Wake Forest University, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WZ KW WB MM. Performed the experiments: CA DN WZ. Analyzed the data: STS JT WZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WZ. Wrote the paper: WZ.