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ArticleMagnetic resonance in medicine2014

Absolute oxygen R1e imaging in vivo with pulse electron paramagnetic resonance.

Boris Epel, Michael K Bowman, Colin Mailer, Howard J Halpern

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Article in Magnetic resonance in medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.

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75citing papers in PubMed
7.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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75 citing papers in PubMed, 99 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Boris EpelCenter for EPR Imaging In Vivo Physiology, The University of Chicago, Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology (MC 1105), Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Michael K Bowman
Colin Mailer
Howard J Halpern
University of Chicago · USUniversity of Alabama · US

Funding

Re-Engineering Translational Research at the University of ChicagoUL1TR000430 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI SOLWAY, JULIAN · 2012 to 2016
$20.2M
Very Low Frequency EPR Imaging in Vivo Phisiology P41 EB02034P41EB002034 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI HALPERN, HOWARD J · 2003 to 2017
$16.1M
Radiation Biology of EPR Oxygen ImagesR01CA098575 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI HALPERN, HOWARD J · 2003 to 2022
$4.5M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000430NCI NIH HHS CA98575NCI NIH HHS R01 CA098575NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB002034NIBIB NIH HHS P41EB002034
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTissue oxygen (O2) levels are among the most important and most quantifiable stimuli to which cells and tissues respond through inducible signaling pathways. Tumor O2 levels are major determinants of the response to cancer therapy. Developing more accurate measurements and images of tissue O2 partial pressure (pO2), assumes enormous practical, biological, and medical importance.

methodsWe present a fundamentally new technique to image pO2 in tumors and tissues with pulse electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) imaging enabled by an injected, nontoxic, triaryl methyl (trityl) spin probe whose unpaired electron's slow relaxation rates report the tissue pO2. Heretofore, virtually all in vivo EPR O2 imaging measures pO2 with the transverse electron spin relaxation rate, R2e, which is susceptible to the self-relaxation confounding O2 sensitivity.

resultsWe found that the trityl electron longitudinal relaxation rate, R1e, is an order of magnitude less sensitive to confounding self-relaxation. R1e imaging has greater accuracy and brings EPR O2 images to an absolute pO2 image, within uncertainties.

conclusionR1e imaging more accurately determines oxygenation of cancer and normal tissue in animal models than has been available. It will enable enhanced, rapid, noninvasive O2 images for understanding oxygen biology and the relationship of oxygenation patterns to therapy outcome in living animal systems.

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Signal Processing, Computer-AssistedAlgorithmsAnimalsCell Line, TumorElectron Spin Resonance SpectroscopyFibrosarcomaImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedMiceMice, Inbred C3HMolecular ImagingOximetryOxygenReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificityOxygenEPRimagingin vivooxygenpulseR1spin lattice relaxationtumor

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PMID24006331
PMCPMC4318240
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