About the Authors
- Viswam S. Nair
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* E-mail: viswamnair@stanford.edu
Affiliation Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Khun Visith Keu
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Affiliation Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Madelyn S. Luttgen
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Anand Kolatkar
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Minal Vasanawala
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Affiliation Division of Nuclear Medicine, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
- Ware Kuschner
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Affiliations Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Section, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
- Kelly Bethel
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Andrei H. Iagaru
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Affiliation Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Carl Hoh
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Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego Medical Center, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Joseph B. Shrager
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Affiliations Division of Thoracic Surgery, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Billy W. Loo Jr
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Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Lyudmila Bazhenova
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Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego Medical Center, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Jorge Nieva
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Affiliation The Department of Hematology and Oncology, Billings Clinic, Billings, Montana, United States of America
- Sanjiv S. Gambhir
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sanjiv S. Gambhir, Peter Kuhn
Affiliations Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, The Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Peter Kuhn
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sanjiv S. Gambhir, Peter Kuhn
Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interest. Peter Kuhn, Kelly Bethel, and Jorge Nieva have an ownership interest in Epic Sciences, which has licensed the HD-CTC technology used in this study. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: VSN PK SSG. Performed the experiments: VSN KVK MSL AK MV KB LB JN. Analyzed the data: VSN KVK MSL AK MV WK KB AHI CH JBS BWL LB JN SSG PK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VSN KVK MSL AK MV WK KB AHI CH JBS BWL LB JN SSG PK. Wrote the paper: VSN KVK MSL LB JN SSG PK.