Rita Pickler, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the FloAnn Sours Easton Professor of Child and Adolescent Health and Director, PhD and MS in Nursing Science Programs, College of Nursing, The Ohio State University, Columbus.
Stephanie Sealschott, BS, RN, is T32 Predoctoral Fellow, College of Nursing, The Ohio State University, Columbus, and Research Nurse I, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio.
Margo Moore, MS, RN, is Research Nurse III, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio.
Stephanie Merhar, MD, MS, is Attending Neonatologist, Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Jean Tkach, PhD, is Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio.
Andrew P. Salzwedel, PhD, is Project Scientist, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Biomedical Imaging Research Institute−Gao Laboratory, Los Angeles, California.
Weili Lin, PhD, is Professor of Radiology Neurology and Biomedical Engineering; Director of MR Research Center, Department of Radiology; Director, Small Animal Imaging Core Facility; Associate Director of Biomedical Research Imaging Center; and Vice Chair, Basic Research, Radiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Wai Gao, PhD, is Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences, and Director, Neuroimaging Research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Accepted for publication July 27, 2017.
The authors acknowledge that this work was completed at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center; the research reported in this article was supported by the National Institute of Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health under Award number R01NR012307 (Pickler, PI) and by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award number 1UL1TR001425 (Heubi and Tsevat, MPI), Just-in-Time Core Grant (Pickler, PI). The protocol for the parent study is registered at clinicaltrials.gov (NCT01577615).
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Corresponding author: Rita Pickler, PhD, RN, FAAN, College of Nursing, The Ohio State University, 324 Newton Hall, 1585 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210 (e-mail: [email protected]).
