Simultaneous x-rays/optical tomography of small animals

A. Da Silva; M. Leabad; T. Bordy; J.-M. Dinten; P. Peltié; P. Rizo

doi:10.1117/12.708131

16 March 2007 Simultaneous x-rays/optical tomography of small animals

A. Da Silva, M. Leabad, T. Bordy, J.-M. Dinten, P. Peltié, P. Rizo

Proceedings Volume 6510, Medical Imaging 2007: Physics of Medical Imaging; 65100G (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.708131
Event: Medical Imaging, 2007, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

A small animal multimodality tomographer dedicated to the co-registration of fluorescence optical signal and X-rays measurements has been developed in our laboratory. The purpose of such a system is to offer the possibility to get in vivo anatomical and functional information at once. Moreover, anatomical measurements can be used as a regularization factor in order to get the reconstructions of the biodistribution of fluorochromes more accurate and to speed up the treatment. The optical system is basically composed with a CW laser (Krypton, 752 nm) for an optimal excitation of Alexa-Fluor 750 fluorochromes, and a CCD camera coupled with a combination of filters for the fluorescence detection. The animal is placed inside a transparent tube filled with an index matching fluid. In order to perform multiple views of fluorescence data acquisitions, the cylinder is fixed to a rotating stage. The excitation beam is brought to the cylinder via two mirrors mounted on translation plates allowing a vertical scan. The optical data acquisitions are performed with a high sensitivity CCD camera. The X-ray generator and the X-ray detector have been placed perpendicularly to the optical chain. A first study on phantoms was conducted to evaluate the feasibility, to test the linearity and the reproducibility, and to fix the parameters for the co-registration. These test experiments were reproduced by considering mice in the oesophagus of which thin glass tubes containing fluorochromes were inserted. Finally, the performance of the system was evaluated in vivo on mice bearing tumours in the lungs, tagged with Transferin-AlexaFluor 750.

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A. Da Silva, M. Leabad, T. Bordy, J.-M. Dinten, P. Peltié, and P. Rizo "Simultaneous x-rays/optical tomography of small animals", Proc. SPIE 6510, Medical Imaging 2007: Physics of Medical Imaging, 65100G (16 March 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.708131

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X-ray optics

Luminescence

Inverse optics

X-rays

Data acquisition

Geometrical optics

In vivo imaging

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