Dr. Irina G. Meerovich Profile

Dr. Irina G. Meerovich

at AN Bach Institute of Biochemistry

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Proceedings Article | 7 March 2023 Presentation + Paper

Clinical MRI contrast agent improves fluorescent imaging of red fluorescent protein expression in-vivo due to the effect of tissue optical clearing

Alexei Bogdanov, Valery Tuchin, Natalia Kazachkina, Victoria Zherdeva, Alexander Savitsky, Lilya Maloshenok, Daria Tuchina, Irina Meerovich, Ilya Solovyev

Proceedings Volume 12378, 1237806 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2648493

KEYWORDS: Tumors, Magnetic resonance imaging, Tissues, Skin, In vivo imaging, Mixtures, Body composition, Contrast agents, Signal to noise ratio, Refractive index, Optical clearing

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The use of multimodality approaches may benefit from simultaneous or sequential optical and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging applied to the same tissue volume. Previously observed in vivo optical clearing (OC) effect of MRI contrast agent was investigated with a goal of quantifying the effect of gadobutrol (GB) and biocompatible compositions containing GB as means of improving fluorescence intensity imaging (FI) in a rodent model of cancer. MRI was also explored as a technique enabling localization of the tumor volumes affected by intravenous administration of GB performed for the purpose of achieving an OC effect. Xenografting of cells expressing a red fluorescent marker TagRFP in athymic mice resulted in subcutaneous tumors that were subjected to 1H MRI at 1T by applying T1w-3D gradient-echo (GRE) pulse sequences. MRI allowed to measure the longitudinal changes in MR signal intensity that were sufficient for ROI analysis after manual or automated image segmentation. By performing topical application of an OC compositions, which contained 1.0 M or 0.7 M GB mixed with water and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) onto the skin similar tumor MRI signal enhancement by 30–40% within the first 15 min was achieved. Over time, the effect of GB-mediated OC on FI and tumor/background ratio decreased. The application of 0.7 M GB OC mixture in contrast, to concentrated 1.0 M GB resulted in a continuous increase of both tumor red fluorescence as well as of the tumor/background ratio within 15 min and 1 h post cutaneous application. By applying T1w-3D GRE MR it was determined that concentrated 1.0 M GB resulted in MR signal loss measured in the skin due to high magnetic susceptibility. However, the MR signal loss was colocalized with the OC effect in tumor tissue. Intravenous injection of GB at a dose of 0.3 mmol/kg resulted in a rapid and temporary increase of FI by 40%. In conclusion, low-field MRI proved to be useful for performing in vivo imaging of GB-containing OC compositions behavior after local and systemic applications in cancer models and supported the observation of FI longitudinal changes in vivo.

Proceedings Article | 9 March 2021 Presentation + Paper

Optical clearing and multimodality fluorescence and magnetic resonance imaging in cancer models

Alexei Bogdanov, Valery Tuchin, Daria Tuchina, Victoria Zherdeva, Irina Meerovich, Ilya Solovyev, Alexander Savitsky, Natalia Kazachkina

Proceedings Volume 11641, 116410C (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2586113

KEYWORDS: Optical clearing, Luminescence, Tumor growth modeling, Cancer, Tumors, Tissues, In vivo imaging, Tissue optics, Skin, Magnetic resonance imaging

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Proceedings Article | 6 April 2020 Presentation

Optical clearing effects in subcutaneous red-fluorescent tumors monitored by fluorescence and magnetic resonance imaging in vivo (Conference Presentation)

Irina Meerovich, Natalia Kazachkina, Victoria Zherdeva, Alexei Bogdanov, Ilya Solovyev, Daria Tuchina, Alexander Savitsky, Valery Tuchin

Proceedings Volume 11363, 113630S (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560186

KEYWORDS: Tumors, Magnetic resonance imaging, Luminescence, In vivo imaging, Optical clearing, Skin, Tissues, Proteins, Magnetism, Confocal microscopy

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The goal of this study was in investigating potential correlation of the effects induced by optical clearing (OC) of the skin and the underlying peripheral tissues with the changes in T2-weighted (T2w) magnetic resonance (MR) signal measured over the matched area in vivo. OC/MRI experiments were performed in athymic nu/nu mice carrying subcutaneous HEp2 tumor xenografts expressing Tag-RFP marker protein at 2-3 weeks after tumor inoculation. Initially, to investigate the effect of OC induced by a mixture of 70% glycerol, 5% DMSO, 25% water, we performed measurements of Tag-RFP fluorescence intensity (FI) and lifetime (FL) before and after OC using a macroscopic confocal scanning system equipped with a supercontinuum laser with the acousto-optic tunable filter and a photon-counting detector. The OC effect was achieved by applying the OC mixture onto the skin over the tumor area for 10 min followed by mixture removal from the skin. Subsequently we performed MRI at 1T using T2w fast spin-echo (FSE) MR pulse sequences before and after OC mixture application in the same animals on two non-consecutive days. Time-correlated single photon counting experiments showed that after OC application FL of Tag-RFP was higher with median difference of 51 ps (P<0.05, Wilcoxon matched-pairs test). Average FI increased by 33% after OC resulting in the higher frequency of fluorescence intensity increase observations (n=19 vs. n=3 with FI decreasing) measured over multiple ROI in 3 animals. The analysis of obtained T2w FSE MR images showed significant quantitative differences (p=0.03) between Gaussian noise-normalized MR signal intensities of the 0.7mm-thick axial peripheral tissue/skin slices before and after OC mixture applications in 2 animals, though in one animal those differences were statistically insignificant. The comparison of T2w MR signal intensities measured in OC mixture phantoms prepared at various dilutions and pure water showed that at chosen FSE MRI parameters the observed differences in MR signal intensity were not due to the application of OC mixture alone and must have been a consequence of OC mixture interaction with the skin and peripheral tumor tissue components. The obtained results point to the potential mechanism of OC clearing as it relates to: 1) a transient change of the peripheral tumoral microenvironment affecting the layer of Tag-RFP expressing cells and resulting in FL increase and T2w MR hypointensity increase caused by shortening of mean proton relaxation times within the voxels of subcutaneous tumors; 2) potential microviscosity increase due to skin permeability for the OC components resulting in the shortening of tissue water proton transverse relaxation times. The phantom experiments suggest that the effect of the OC mixture on MR signal is indirect rather than direct consequence of either OC/water magnetic relaxation properties, or additional chemical shift artifact. Therefore, T2w 1T MRI showed promise as a technique suitable for detecting small longitudinal changes of the MR signal in the subcutaneous tissue under the conditions of OC, which resulted in an increase of FI/FL of a red fluorescent marker protein. The latter effects are expected to benefit in vivo imaging of marker protein expression in animal tumor models.

Proceedings Article | 21 February 2020 Presentation + Paper

Towards registration of optical and MR signal changes in subcutaneous tumor volume in vivo after optical skin clearing

Valery Tuchin, Irina Meerovich, Natalia Kazachkina, Viktoria Zherdeva, Ilya Solovyev, Daria Tuchina, Alexander Savitsky, Alexei Bogdanov

Proceedings Volume 11239, 112390N (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2545312

KEYWORDS: Tumors, Tissues, Skin, Magnetic resonance imaging, Luminescence, Tissue optics, In vivo imaging, Water, Optical clearing, Optical imaging

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SPIE Journal Paper | 1 July 2008 Open Access

Fluorescence diffuse tomography for detection of red fluorescent protein expressed tumors in small animals

Ilya Turchin, Vladislav Kamensky, Vladimir Plehanov, Anna Orlova, Mikhail Kleshnin, Ilya Fiks, Marina Shirmanova, Irina Meerovich, Lyaisan Arslanbaeva, Viktoria Jerdeva, Alexander Savitsky

JBO, Vol. 13, Issue 04, 041310, (July 2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.2953528

KEYWORDS: Luminescence, Tumors, Reconstruction algorithms, Sensors, Fluorescent proteins, Fluorescence tomography, Tomography, In vivo imaging, Absorption filters, 3D modeling

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Proceedings Article | 14 February 2007 Paper

Fluorescence diffuse tomography for detection of RFP-expressed tumors in small animals

Lyaisan Arslanbaeva, Alexander Savitsky, Ilya Turchin, Vladimir Plehanov, Ilya Fiks, Irina Meerovich, Mikhail Kleshnin, Anna Orlova, Vladislav Kamensky, Marina Shirmanova, Viktoria Jerdeva

Proceedings Volume 6449, 644915 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.714368

KEYWORDS: Tumors, Luminescence, 3D modeling, Point spread functions, Sensors, Fluorescent proteins, Tomography, In vivo imaging, Tissue optics, Scattering

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Proceedings Article | 4 April 2005 Paper

Study of action of cyclophosphamide and extract of mycelium of Pleurotus ostreatus in vivo on mice, bearing melanoma B16-F0-GFP

Valery Gerasimenya, Robert Hoffman, Alexander Savitsky, Ping Jiang, Vladimir Popov, Irina Meerovich, Meng Yang, Alexander Orlov

Proceedings Volume 5704, (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.592546

KEYWORDS: Tumors, Melanoma, Blood, In vivo imaging, Green fluorescent protein, Proteins, Organisms, Luminescence, Visualization, Tumor growth modeling

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Proceedings Article | 22 September 2003 Paper

Improvement of photodynamic activity of aluminium sulphophthalocyanine due to biotinylation

Eugeny Lukyanets, Victoria Jerdeva, Valentina Derkacheva, Eugenia Kogan, Irina Meerovich, Alexander Savitsky, Gennadii Meerovich

Proceedings Volume 5149, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.518711

KEYWORDS: Aluminum, Tumors, In vivo imaging, Photodynamic therapy, In vitro testing, Cell death, Optical filters, Lamps, Tissues, Lung

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Proceedings Article | 13 June 2003 Paper

High-throughput screening system for the study of phototoxicity of photosensitizers in vitro

Alexander Savitsky, Victoria Jerdeva, Gennadii Meerovich, Irina Meerovich, Valentina Derkacheva

Proceedings Volume 4952, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480277

KEYWORDS: Lamps, In vitro testing, Optical filters, Light, Reflectors, Xenon, Aluminum, Radiation effects, Photodynamic therapy, Calibration

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Proceedings Article | 31 January 2001 Paper

Phototoxic properties of dibiotinylated aluminum sulphophthalocyanine in vitro and in vivo

Valentina Derkacheva, Eugenia Kogan, Eugeny Lukianets, Gennadii Meerovich, Victoria Zherdeva, Georgy Vorozhtsov, Irina Meerovich, Alexander Savitsky

Proceedings Volume 4156, (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.413716

KEYWORDS: Aluminum, In vitro testing, Photodynamic therapy, Lamps, Optical fibers, Lung, Cancer, Optical filters, In vivo imaging, Cell death

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Proceedings Article | 29 December 1997 Paper

Avidin-biotin system for targeting delivery of photosensitizers and other cytotoxic agents into malignant tissues

Eugeny Lukyanets, Alexander Savitsky, Oleg Kaliya, Joerg Moser, Raisa Yakubovskaya, Irina Meerovich

Proceedings Volume 3191, (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.297826

KEYWORDS: Tissues, Photosensitizer targeting, Photodynamic therapy, Tumors, Non-invasive medical diagnostics, Cancer

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