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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Photoacoustic Imaging for Assessing Tissue Oxygenation Changes in Rat Hepatic Fibrosis.

Mrigendra B Karmacharya, Laith R Sultan, Brooke M Kirkham, Angela K Brice, Andrew K W Wood, Chandra M Sehgal

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mrigendra B KarmacharyaDepartment of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0290-0446
Laith R SultanDepartment of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2632-4164
Brooke M KirkhamDepartment of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Angela K BriceUniversity Laboratory Animal Resources, University of Pennsylvania, 3800 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Andrew K W WoodDepartment of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3800 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Chandra M SehgalDepartment of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8811-1930
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Antivascular ultrasound therapy of primary liver neoplasiaR01CA204446 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI SEHGAL, CHANDRA M · 2017 to 2021
$2.0M
Tunable microbubbles for antivascular ultrasoundR01EB022612 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI SEHGAL, CHANDRA M · 2016 to 2019
$1.6M
Integrated photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging with the Vevo LAZRS10OD016310 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI SEHGAL, CHANDRA M · 2014 to 2014
$494k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA204446NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB022612NIH HHS ROICA204446, ROIEB022612, and S10657301NIH HHS S10 OD016310
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic liver inflammation progressively evokes fibrosis and cirrhosis resulting in compromised liver function, and often leading to cancer. Early diagnosis and staging of fibrosis is crucial because the five-year survival rate of early-stage liver cancer is high. This study investigates the progression of hepatic fibrosis induced in rats following ingestion of diethylnitrosamine (DEN). Changes in oxygen saturation and hemoglobin concentration resulting from chronic inflammation were assayed longitudinally during DEN ingestion by photoacoustic imaging (PAI). Accompanying liver tissue changes were monitored simultaneously by B-mode sonographic imaging. Oxygen saturation and hemoglobin levels in the liver increased over 5 weeks and peaked at 10 weeks before decreasing at 13 weeks of DEN ingestion. The oxygenation changes were accompanied by an increase in hepatic echogenicity and coarseness in the ultrasound image. Histology at 13 weeks confirmed the development of severe fibrosis and cirrhosis. The observed increase in PA signal representing enhanced blood oxygenation is likely an inflammatory physiological response to the dietary DEN insult that increases blood flow by the development of neovasculature to supply oxygen to a fibrotic liver during the progression of hepatic fibrosis. Assessment of oxygenation by PAI may play an important role in the future assessment of hepatic fibrosis.

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angiogenesisechogenicityhemoglobin concentrationhypoxiaoxygen saturation

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PMID32957666
PMCPMC7555416
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