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JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS
Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 432-440Publisher
SPIE-INT SOCIETY OPTICAL ENGINEERING
DOI: 10.1117/1.1413210
Keywords
imaging; bioluminescence; luminescence; fluorescence; luciferase; in vivo
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In vivo imaging of cells Lagged with light-emitting probes, such as firefly luciferase or fluorescent proteins, is a powerful technology that enables a wide range of biological studies in small research animals. Reporters with emission in the red to infrared (> 600 nm) are preferred due to the low absorption in tissue at these wavelengths. Modeling of photon diffusion through tissue indicates that bioluminescent cell counts as low as a few hundred can be detected subcutaneously, while similar to 10(6) cells are required to detect signals at similar to2 cm depth in tissue. Signal-to-noise estimates show that cooled back-thinned integrating charge coupled devices (CCDs) are preferred to image-intensified CCDs for this application, mainly due to their high quantum efficiency (similar to 85%) at wavelengths > 600 nm where tissue absorption is low. Instrumentation for in vivo imaging developed at Xenogen is described and several examples of images of mice with bioluminescent cells are presented. (C) 2001 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.
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