Title :
In vivo folate-targeted small animal imaging with optical diffusion tomography
Author :
Tsai, H.-R. ; Bentz, B.Z. ; Chelvam, V. ; Gaind, Vaibhav ; Webb, Kevin J. ; Low, P.S.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
We present a folate-targeting fluorophore pair that has the potential for imaging targeted anticancer drug delivery kinetics. Experimental results for in vivo imaging of absorption and fluorescence in a small animal are presented.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; cancer; drug delivery systems; fluorescence; medical image processing; optical tomography; absorption imaging; anticancer drug delivery kinetics; fluorescence imaging; folate-targeted small animal imaging; folate-targeting fluorophore pair; optical diffusion tomography; Biomedical optical imaging; In vivo; Mice; Optical imaging; Tomography; Tumors;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
