Tomography of epidermal growth factor receptor binding to fluorescent Affibody in vivo studied with magnetic resonance guided fluorescence recovery in varying orthotopic glioma sizes
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2015
Publication Title
Journal of Biomedical Optics
Department
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Additional Department
Thayer School of Engineering
Abstract
The ability to image targeted tracer binding to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) was studied in vivo in orthotopically grown glioma tumors of different sizes. The binding potential was quantified using a dual-tracer approach, which employs a fluorescently labeled peptide targeted to EGFR and a reference tracer with similar pharmacokinetic properties but no specific binding, to estimate the relative bound fraction from kinetic compartment modeling. The recovered values of binding potential did not vary significantly as a function of tumor size (1 to 33 mm3" role="presentation" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Museo Sans-300", Arial, "Sans Serif"; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; word-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; max-height: none; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;">33mm333 mm3), suggesting that binding potential may be consistent in the U251 tumors regardless of size or stage after implantation. However, the fluorescence yield of the targeted fluorescent tracers in the tumor was affected significantly by tumor size, suggesting that dual-tracer imaging helps account for variations in absolute uptake, which plague single-tracer imaging techniques. Ex vivo analysis showed relatively high spatial heterogeneity in each tumor that cannot be resolved by tomographic techniques. Nonetheless, the dual-tracer tomographic technique is a powerful tool for longitudinal bulk estimation of receptor binding.
DOI
10.1117/1.JBO.20.2.026001
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Holt, Robert W.; Demers, Jennifer-Lynn H.; Sexton, Kristian; Gunn, Jason; Davis, Scott; Samkoe, Kimberly; and Pogue, Brian W., "Tomography of epidermal growth factor receptor binding to fluorescent Affibody in vivo studied with magnetic resonance guided fluorescence recovery in varying orthotopic glioma sizes" (2015). Dartmouth Scholarship. 91.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/91
