Zhu, Quing
Tannenbaum, Susan
Kurtzman, Scott H.
DeFusco, Patricia
Ricci, Andrew Jr
Vavadi, Hamed
Zhou, Feifei
Xu, Chen
Merkulov, Alex
Hegde, Poornima
Kane, Mark
Wang, Liqun
Sabbath, Kert
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (RO1EB002136)
Connecticut Bioscience Innovation Fund (CBIF513)
Article History
Received: 31 October 2017
Accepted: 30 April 2018
First Online: 14 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was approved by the institutional review boards of the University of Connecticut Health Center, Hartford Hospital and Waterbury Hospital and was HIPAA compliant. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients.
: All authors have read the manuscript and agreed with the submission.
: QZ is the inventor of patents related to ultrasound-guided near-infrared tomography technologies and patents owned by the University of Connecticut. The remaining authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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