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In vivo photoacoustic tomography of mouse cerebral edema induced by cold injury

2011; SPIE; Volume: 16; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1117/1.3584847

1560-2281

Zhun Xu, Quing Zhu, Lihong V. Wang,

Thermal Regulation in Medicine

For the first time, we have implemented photoacoustic tomography (PAT) to image the water content of an edema in vivo. We produced and imaged a cold-induced cerebral edema transcranially, then obtained blood vessel and water accumulation images at 610 and 975 nm, respectively. We tracked the changes at 12, 24, and 36 h after the cold injury. The blood volume decreased after the cold injury, and the maximum area of edema was observed 24 h after the cold injury. We validated PAT of the water content of the edema through magnetic Resonance Imaging and the water spectrum from the spectrophotometric measurement.