Journal
PHOTOACOUSTICS
Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 103-110Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacs.2014.06.001
Keywords
Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography (MSOT); Photoacoustic imaging; Indocyanine Green; In vivo imaging; Pharmacokinetics; Gastric emptying
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- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through the GO-Bio program
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A common side effect of medication is gastrointestinal intolerance. Symptoms can include reduced appetite, diarrhea, constipation, GI inflammation, nausea and vomiting. Such effects often have a dramatic impact on compliance with a treatment regimen. Therefore, characterization of GI tolerance is an important step when establishing a novel therapeutic approach. In this study, Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography (MSOT) is used to monitor gastrointestinal motility by in vivo whole body imaging in mice. MSOT combines high spatial and temporal resolution based on ultrasound detection with strong optical contrast in the near infrared. Animals were given Indocyanine Green (ICG) by oral gavage and imaged by MSOT to observe the fate of ICG in the gastrointestinal tract. Exponential decay of ICG signal was observed in the stomach in good correlation with ex vivo validation. We discuss how kinetic imaging in MSOT allows visualization of parameters unavailable to other imaging methods, both in 2D and 3D. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
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