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CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
Volume 50, Issue 14, Pages 7924-7940Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1cs00358e
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21788102]
- Fund of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates [2019B030301003]
- Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) AME IRG grant [A20E5c0081]
- Singapore National Research Foundation Investigatorship [NRF-NRFI2018-03]
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Optoacoustic imaging is a hybrid biomedical imaging technique that uses contrast agents to generate ultrasound waves in tissues, producing high-resolution images. Multispectral optoacoustic imaging can discriminate signals from different contrast agents and enable specific agent identification in tissues, as well as simultaneous molecular and physiological imaging. Contrast agents play essential roles in optoacoustic imaging, with various new agents being explored and applied in recent years.
Optoacoustic imaging is a hybrid biomedical imaging modality which collects ultrasound waves generated via photoexciting contrast agents in tissues and produces images of high resolution and penetration depth. As a functional optoacoustic imaging technique, multispectral optoacoustic imaging, which can discriminate optoacoustic signals from different contrast agents by illuminating samples with multi-wavelength lasers and then processing the collected data with specific algorithms, assists in the identification of a specific contrast agent in target tissues and enables simultaneous molecular and physiological imaging. Moreover, multispectral optoacoustic imaging can also generate three-dimensional images for biological tissues/samples with high resolution and thus holds great potential in biomedical applications. Contrast agents play essential roles in optoacoustic imaging, and they have been widely explored and applied as probes and sensors in recent years, leading to the emergence of a variety of new contrast agents. In this review, we aim to summarize the latest advances in emerging contrast agents, especially the activatable ones which can respond to specific biological stimuli, as well as their preclinical and clinical applications. We highlight their design strategies, discuss the challenges and prospects in multispectral optoacoustic imaging, and outline the possibility of applying it in clinical translation and public health services using synthetic contrast agents.
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