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ArticleClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2019

Fluorescence Lifetime-Based Tumor Contrast Enhancement Using an EGFR Antibody-Labeled Near-Infrared Fluorophore.

Rahul Pal, Homan Kang, Hak Soo Choi, Anand T N Kumar

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Article in Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rahul PalAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Homan KangGordon Center for Medical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Hak Soo ChoiGordon Center for Medical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0002-7982-6483
Anand T N KumarAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. atkumar@mgh.harvard.edu.
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging · USGordon Center for Medical Imaging · US

Funding

Preclinical Time domain Fluorescence Tomography PlatformR01CA211084 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI KUMAR, ANAND T.N. · 2017 to 2022
$2.6M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA211084
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeImaging techniques for highly specific detection of cancer cells EXPERIMENTAL

designMice bearing MDA-MB-231 tumors were injected with anti-EGFR antibody conjugated to the fluorescent dye IRDye 800CW (anti-EGFR-800). Time domain fluorescence imaging was performed

resultsMice injected with anti-EGFR-800 showed a significantly longer FLT (0.7 ± 0.03 ns) compared with the FLT of nonspecific probe uptake in liver (0.63 ± 0.05 ns), providing a dramatic improvement in sensitivity and specificity compared with CW intensity. IgG antibody-conjugated IRDye 800CW did not show an increased FLT compared with normal tissue, suggesting that the FLT increase of anti-EGFR-800 in tumors was associated with receptor expression. Using serial surgery, we show that FLT allows the detection of smaller residual tumors in the surgical bed than possible using CW intensity.

conclusionsOur data suggest that FLT can significantly enhance tumor contrast using fluorescently labeled antibodies, thereby accelerating the efficient clinical application of these probes for margin assessment in image-guided surgery and for highly specific detection of tumor receptors

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Antibodies, MonoclonalFluorescent DyesImage EnhancementAnimalsBiopsyCell Line, TumorDisease Models, AnimalErbB ReceptorsHeterograftsHumansImmunohistochemistryMiceMicroscopy, FluorescenceNeoplasmsOptical ImagingAntibodies, MonoclonalEGFR protein, humanErbB ReceptorsFluorescent Dyes

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PMID31481509
PMCPMC6858968
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