Photoacoustic microscopy using Evans Blue dye as a contrast agent

Junjie Yao; Konstantin I. Maslov; Song Hu; Lihong V. Wang

doi:10.1117/12.840684

23 February 2010 Photoacoustic microscopy using Evans Blue dye as a contrast agent

Junjie Yao, Konstantin I. Maslov, Song Hu, Lihong V. Wang

Proceedings Volume 7564, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2010; 75642J (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.840684
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2010, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Complete and continuous imaging of microvascular networks is crucial for a wide variety of biomedical applications. Photoacoustic tomography can provide high resolution microvascular imaging using hemoglobin within red blood cells (RBC) as an endogenous contrast agent. However, intermittent RBC flow in capillaries results in discontinuous and fragmentary capillary images. To overcome this problem, we used Evans Blue (EB) dye as a contrast agent for in vivo photoacoustic imaging. EB has strong optical absorption at 610 nm and distributes uniformly in the blood stream by chemically binding to albumin. By intravenous injection of EB (6%, 200 μL), complete and continuous microvascular networks-especially capillaries-of the ears of nude mice were imaged. The diffusion of EB (3%, 100 μL) leaving the blood stream was monitored for 2 hours. At lower administration dose of EB (3%, 50 μL), the clearance of the EB-albumin complex was imaged for 10 days and quantitatively investigated using a two-compartment model.

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Junjie Yao, Konstantin I. Maslov, Song Hu, and Lihong V. Wang "Photoacoustic microscopy using Evans Blue dye as a contrast agent", Proc. SPIE 7564, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2010, 75642J (23 February 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.840684

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