Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2014

Publisher

Wiley

Source Publication

Journal of Biophotonics

Source ISSN

1864-063X

Original Item ID

DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201200187

Abstract

Hypoxia and angiogenesis can significantly influence the efficacy of cancer therapy and the behavior of surviving tumor cells. There is a growing demand for technologies to measure tumor hypoxia and angiogenesis temporally in vivo to enable advances in drug development and optimization. This paper reports the use of frequency-domain photon migration with a side-firing probe to quantify tumor oxygenation and hemoglobin concentrations in nude rats bearing human head/neck tumors administered with carbogen gas, cycling hypoxic gas or just room air. Significant increase (with carbogen gas breathing) or decrease (with hypoxic gas breathing) in tumor oxygenation was observed. The trend in tumor oxygenation during forced cycling hypoxia (CH) followed that of the blood oxygenation measured with a pulse oximeter. Natural CH was also observed in rats under room air. The studies demonstrated the potential of the technology for longitudinal monitoring of tumor CH during tumor growth or in response to therapy.

Comments

Accepted version. Journal of Biophotonics, Vol. 7, No. 7 (July 2014): 552-564. DOI. © 2014 Wiley. Used with permission.

Bing Yu was affiliated with University of Akron and Duke University at the time of publication.

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