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Trial reportMagnetic resonance in medicine2014

Clinical cell therapy imaging using a perfluorocarbon tracer and fluorine-19 MRI.

Eric T Ahrens, Brooke M Helfer, Charles F O'Hanlon, Claudiu Schirda

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Trial report 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 143 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

143 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Tumor-Associated Macrophages: Clinical Translation.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2018
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  8. Preclinical Applications of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Oncology.Recent results in cancer research. Fortschritte der Krebsforschung. Progres dans les recherches sur le cancer · 2026
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  11. Theranostic Toolbox for Neutrophil Functionalization.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  12. Imaging of Thromboinflammation by MultispectralInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  13. MRI detection of free-contrast agent nanoparticles.Magnetic resonance in medicine · 2025
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  19. Long-termNanoscale advances · 2024
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  20. Feasibility and optimization ofPhysics in medicine and biology · 2024
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83 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Eric T AhrensDepartment of Radiology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
Brooke M Helfer
Charles F O'Hanlon
Claudiu Schirda

Funding

CLINICAL TRANSLATION OF 19F MRI TO VISUALIZE CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC CELLSR01CA134633 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI AHRENS, ERIC T., COHEN, EZRA · 2009 to 2021
$4.4M
Intracellular oxygen sensing using 19F MRIR01EB017271 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI AHRENS, ERIC T. · 2013 to 2016
$1.3M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA134633NCI NIH HHS R01-CA134633NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB017271
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeCellular therapeutics are emerging as a treatment option for a host of serious human diseases. To accelerate clinical translation, noninvasive imaging of cell grafts in clinical trials can potentially be used to assess the initial delivery and behavior of cells.

methodsThe use of a perfluorocarbon (PFC) tracer agent for clinical fluorine-19 ((19) F) MRI cell detection is described. This technology was used to detect immunotherapeutic dendritic cells (DCs) delivered to colorectal adenocarcinoma patients. Autologous DC vaccines were labeled with a PFC MRI agent ex vivo. Patients received DCs intradermally, and (19) F spin-density-weighted MRI at 3 Tesla (T) was used to observe cells.

resultsSpin-density-weighted (19) F images at the injection site displayed DCs as background-free "hot-spot" images. (19) F images were acquired in clinically relevant scan times (<10 min). Apparent DC numbers could be quantified in two patients from the (19) F hot-spots and were observed to decrease by ∼50% at injection site by 24 h. From 3T phantom studies, the sensitivity limit for DC detection is estimated to be on the order of ∼10(5) cells/voxel in this study.

conclusionThese results help to establish a clinically applicable means to track a broad range of cell types used in cell therapy.

Indexed as

FluorocarbonsAdultAgedCells, CulturedCell TrackingColorectal NeoplasmsContrast MediaDendritic CellsFeasibility StudiesFemaleFluorine-19 Magnetic Resonance ImagingHumansImage EnhancementMaleMiddle AgedReproducibility of ResultsContrast MediaFluorocarbons19Fcancercell trackingdendritic cellsfluorine-19immunotherapyMRIperfluorcarbon

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PMID25241945
PMCPMC4253123

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