Optically measured microvascular blood flow contrast of malignant breast tumors.

Autor:	Choe R; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America., Putt ME; Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America., Carlile PM; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America., Durduran T; ICFO- Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain., Giammarco JM; Department of Astronomy & Physics, Eastern University, St. Davids, Pennsylvania, United States of America., Busch DR; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America; The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America., Jung KW; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America., Czerniecki BJ; Department of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America., Tchou J; Department of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America., Feldman MD; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America., Mies C; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America., Rosen MA; Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America., Schnall MD; Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America., DeMichele A; Department of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America., Yodh AG; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	PloS one [PLoS One] 2014 Jun 26; Vol. 9 (6), pp. e99683. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Jun 26 (Print Publication: 2014).
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0099683
Abstrakt:	Microvascular blood flow contrast is an important hemodynamic and metabolic parameter with potential to enhance in vivo breast cancer detection and therapy monitoring. Here we report on non-invasive line-scan measurements of malignant breast tumors with a hand-held optical probe in the remission geometry. The probe employs diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS), a near-infrared optical method that quantifies deep tissue microvascular blood flow. Tumor-to-normal perfusion ratios are derived from thirty-two human subjects. Mean (95% confidence interval) tumor-to-normal ratio using surrounding normal tissue was 2.25 (1.92-2.63); tumor-to-normal ratio using normal tissues at the corresponding tumor location in the contralateral breast was 2.27 (1.94-2.66), and using normal tissue in the contralateral breast was 2.27 (1.90-2.70). Thus, the mean tumor-to-normal ratios were significantly different from unity irrespective of the normal tissue chosen, implying that tumors have significantly higher blood flow than normal tissues. Therefore, the study demonstrates existence of breast cancer contrast in blood flow measured by DCS. The new, optically accessible cancer contrast holds potential for cancer detection and therapy monitoring applications, and it is likely to be especially useful when combined with diffuse optical spectroscopy/tomography.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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