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Imaging of molecular probe activity with Born-normalized fluorescence optical projection tomography

Published inOptics letters, vol. 35, no. 7, p. 1088-1090
Publication date2010-04-01
First online date2010-03-31
Abstract

Optical projection tomography is a new ex vivo imaging technique that allows imaging of whole organs in three dimensions at high spatial resolutions. In this Letter we demonstrate its capability to tomographically visualize molecular activity in whole organs of mice. In particular, eosinophil activity in asthmatic lungs is resolved using a Born-normalized fluorescence optical projection tomography and employing a near-IR molecular probe. The possibility to achieve molecularly sensitive imaging contrast in optical projection tomography by means of targeted and activatable imaging reporter agents adds a new range of capabilities for investigating molecular signatures of pathophysiological processes and a wide variety of diseases and their development.

Keywords
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence / instrumentation
  • Molecular Probe Techniques / instrumentation
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Tomography, Optical / instrumentation
Affiliation entities Not a UNIGE publication
Funding
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH) [1-RO1-EB006432]
  • NIBIB NIH HHS [R01 EB006432]
Citation (ISO format)
VINEGONI, Claudio et al. Imaging of molecular probe activity with Born-normalized fluorescence optical projection tomography. In: Optics letters, 2010, vol. 35, n° 7, p. 1088–1090. doi: 10.1364/ol.35.001088
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-35-7-1088
Journal ISSN0146-9592
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