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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2019

Quantitative Imaging of Gd Nanoparticles in Mice Using Benchtop Cone-Beam X-ray Fluorescence Computed Tomography System.

Siyuan Zhang, Liang Li, Jiayou Chen, Zhiqiang Chen, Wenli Zhang, Hongbing Lu

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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6 authors.

Siyuan ZhangDepartment of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China, zhangsy92@163.com (S.Z.). zhangsy92@163.com.ORCID 0000-0003-2057-1647
Liang LiDepartment of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China, zhangsy92@163.com (S.Z.). lliang@tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0003-1148-1260
Jiayou ChenDepartment of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China, zhangsy92@163.com (S.Z.). jiayou-c16@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn.
Zhiqiang ChenDepartment of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China, zhangsy92@163.com (S.Z.). czq@tsinghua.edu.cn.
Wenli ZhangSchool of Biomedical Engineering, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China, wenlizhang1121@163.com (W.Z.). wenlizhang1121@163.com.
Hongbing LuSchool of Biomedical Engineering, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China, wenlizhang1121@163.com (W.Z.). luhb@fmmu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0003-4181-7239

Funding

National Key R&D Program of China 2018YFC0115502National Natural Science Foundation of China 11775124
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanoparticles (NPs) are currently under intensive research for their application in tumor diagnosis and therapy. X-ray fluorescence computed tomography (XFCT) is considered a promising non-invasive imaging technique to obtain the bio-distribution of nanoparticles which include high-Z elements (e.g., gadolinium (Gd) or gold (Au)). In the present work, a set of experiments with quantitative imaging of GdNPs in mice were performed using our benchtop XFCT device. GdNPs solution which consists of 20 mg/mL NaGdF4 was injected into a nude mouse and two tumor-bearing mice. Each mouse was then irradiated by a cone-beam X-ray source produced by a conventional X-ray tube and a linear-array photon counting detector with a single pinhole collimator was placed on one side of the beamline to record the intensity and spatial information of the X-ray fluorescent photons. The maximum likelihood iterative algorithm with scatter correction and attenuation correction method was applied for quantitative reconstruction of the XFCT images. The results show that the distribution of GdNPs in each target slice (containing liver, kidney or tumor) was well reconstructed and the concentration of GdNPs deposited in each organ was quantitatively estimated, which indicates that this benchtop XFCT system provides convenient tools for obtaining accurate concentration distribution of NPs injected into animals and has potential for imaging of nanoparticles in vivo.

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Cone-Beam Computed TomographyImage Processing, Computer-AssistedTomography, X-Ray ComputedAnimalsCalibrationContrast MediaFluorescenceGadoliniumHep G2 CellsHumansMaleMetal NanoparticlesMice, NudePhantoms, ImagingPolymethyl MethacrylateTissue DistributionContrast MediaGadoliniumPolymethyl Methacrylatecomputed tomographyGd nanoparticlesquantitative image reconstructionX-ray fluorescence

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