About the Authors

Linbo Liu

Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kengyeh K. Chu

Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Grace H. Houser

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Bradford J. Diephuis

Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yao Li

Affiliation Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Eric J. Wilsterman

Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Suresh Shastry

Affiliation Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Gregory Dierksen

Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Susan E. Birket

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Marina Mazur

Affiliation Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Suzanne Byan-Parker

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

William E. Grizzle

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Eric J. Sorscher

Affiliations Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Steven M. Rowe

Contributed equally to this work with: Steven M. Rowe, Guillermo J. Tearney

smrowe@uab.edu (SMR); gtearney@partners.org (GJT)

Affiliations Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Guillermo J. Tearney

Contributed equally to this work with: Steven M. Rowe, Guillermo J. Tearney

smrowe@uab.edu (SMR); gtearney@partners.org (GJT)

Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The following authors declare that they have filed a patent application related to the application of μOCT technology to airways: Linbo Liu, Kengyeh K. Chu, Grace H. Houser, Bradford J. Diephuis, Eric J. Wilsterman, Gregory Dierksen, Eric J. Sorscher, Steven M. Rowe, and Guillermo J. Tearney. The application serial number is PCT/US12/52553, entitled “Method for functional investigation of respiratory airways and other ciliated tissues using μOCT,” filed August 27, 2012. No financial benefit has yet been derived from this application by any author. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GJT SMR LL EJS. Performed the experiments: LL KKC GHH BJD YL EJW SS GD SEB MM SBP. Analyzed the data: GJT SMR LL KKC GHH BJD YL EJW SS GD SEB WEG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GJT SMR LL KKC GD MM SBP WEG EJS. Wrote the paper: GJT SMR LL KKC.