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Acknowledgments—
This research was funded in part by the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke through Grant R01-NS047603 and Diversity Supplement, and the University of Cincinnati Heart, Lung, and Vascular Institute Near Horizons Collaborative Grant. We thank Betsy A. DiPasquale and Kelley Stanley from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Anatomic Pathology Core for help with histologic analysis. We thank Dr. Jonathan Dillman from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Department of Radiology for assistance in measuring the elasticity of our phantom with a Siemens Acuson S3000 scanner equipped with a 9 L4 linear array and a Canon Aplio 500 equipped with a 6 C1 array. The authors acknowledge Professors Antonius F. W. van der Steen, Nico de Jong and Mark Palmeri for useful discussions. Dr. Shenwen Huang, Maegan S. Lee and Ashley T. Lengel are acknowledged for their assistance in the initial stages of the project.
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