Through Skull Fluorescence Imaging of the Brain in a New Near-Infrared Window
| Autor: | Hong, Guosong, Diao, Shuo, Chang, Junlei, Antaris, Alexander L., Chen, Changxin, Zhang, Bo, Zhao, Su, Atochin, Dmitriy N., Huang, Paul L., Andreasson, Katrin I., Kuo, Calvin J., Dai, Hongjie |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1038/nphoton.2014.166 |
| Popis: | To date, brain imaging has largely relied on X-ray computed tomography and magnetic resonance angiography with limited spatial resolution and long scanning times. Fluorescence-based brain imaging in the visible and traditional near-infrared regions (400-900 nm) is an alternative but currently requires craniotomy, cranial windows and skull thinning techniques, and the penetration depth is limited to 1-2 mm due to light scattering. Here, we report through-scalp and through-skull fluorescence imaging of mouse cerebral vasculature without craniotomy utilizing the intrinsic photoluminescence of single-walled carbon nanotubes in the 1.3-1.4 micrometre near-infrared window. Reduced photon scattering in this spectral region allows fluorescence imaging reaching a depth of >2 mm in mouse brain with sub-10 micrometre resolution. An imaging rate of ~5.3 frames/s allows for dynamic recording of blood perfusion in the cerebral vessels with sufficient temporal resolution, providing real-time assessment of blood flow anomaly in a mouse middle cerebral artery occlusion stroke model. Comment: 38 pages, 4 main figures and 11 Supplementary figures. published in Nature Photonics, 2014 |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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