Characterization and treatment monitoring of inflammatory arthritis by photoacoustic imaging: a study on adjuvant-induced arthritis rat model

Xueding Wang; Justin Rajian; Xia Shao; David L. Chamberland; Gandikota Girish

doi:10.1117/12.2037418

3 March 2014 Characterization and treatment monitoring of inflammatory arthritis by photoacoustic imaging: a study on adjuvant-induced arthritis rat model

Xueding Wang, Justin Rajian, Xia Shao, David L. Chamberland, Gandikota Girish

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Proceedings Volume 8943, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2014; 89431P (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2037418
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Neovascularity also known as angiogenesis is an early feature of inflammatory arthritis disease. Therefore, identifying the development of neovascularity is one way to potentially detect and characterize arthritis. Laser-based photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging biomedical imaging modality which may aid in detection of both early and continued development of neovascularity. In this work, we investigated the feasibility of PAI to measure angiogenesis, for the purpose of evaluating and monitoring inflammatory arthritis after treatment. The imaging results on an arthritis rat model demonstrate that 1) there is noticeable enhancement in image intensity in the arthritic ankle joints when compared to the normal joints, and 2) there is noticeable decrease in image intensity in the arthritic ankle joints after treatment when compared to the untreated arthritic joints. In order to validate the findings from PAI, we performed positron emission tomography (PET) and histology on the same joints. The diameters of the ankle joints, as a clinical score of the arthritis, were also measured at each time point.

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Xueding Wang, Justin Rajian, Xia Shao, David L. Chamberland, and Gandikota Girish "Characterization and treatment monitoring of inflammatory arthritis by photoacoustic imaging: a study on adjuvant-induced arthritis rat model", Proc. SPIE 8943, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2014, 89431P (3 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2037418

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