Imaging of nanoparticles with dual-energy computed tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2031-2044

  Ducote, J L ^a   Alivov, Y ^a   Molloi, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; ANALYTICAL SIMULATIONS; BEAM ENERGIES; CALCIUM HYDROXYAPATITE; CLINICAL IMAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICES; CONTRAST AGENT; DETECTABILITY; DUAL-ENERGY; DUAL-ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUAL-ENERGY IMAGING; FIGURE OF MERIT; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HIGH-ENERGY BEAMS; INTEGRAL DOSE; MINIMUM DETECTABLE CONCENTRATIONS; MONOENERGETIC; REFERENCE ENERGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SIMULATION STUDIES; SQUARE ROOTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GOLD; HYDROXYAPATITE; IMAGE QUALITY; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; IODINE; MEDICAL IMAGING; NANOPARTICLES; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; TIME;

CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; NANOPARTICLES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79952954576     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/7/008     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Alvarez R E and Macovski A 1976 Energy-selective reconstructions in x-ray computerized tomography Phys. Med. Biol. 21 733-44
2. Aydogan B, Li J, Rajh T, Chaudhary A, Chmura S J, Pelizzari C, Wietholt C, Kurtoglu M and Redmond P 2010 AuNP-DG: deoxyglucose-labeled gold nanoparticles as x-ray computed tomography contrast agents for cancer imaging Mol. Imaging Biol. 12 463-7
3. Boone J M 1992 Parametrized x-ray absorption in diagnostic radiology from Monte Carlo calculations: implications for x-ray detector design Med. Phys. 19 1467-73
4. Boone J M and Chavez A E 1996 Comparison of x-ray cross sections for diagnostic and therapeutic medical physics Med. Phys. 23 1997-2005 (Pubitemid 27023697)
5. Boote E, Fent G, Kattumuri V, Casteel S, Katti K, Chanda N, Kannan R and Churchill R 2010 Gold nanoparticle contrast in a phantom and juvenile swine: models for molecular imaging of human organs using x-ray computed tomography Acad. Radiol. 17 410-7
6. Bushberg J T, Seibert J A, Leidholdt E M and Boone J M 2002 The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging (Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) pp 278-9
7. Cai Q Y, Kim S H, Choi K S, Kim S Y, Byun S J, Kim K W, Park S H, Juhng S K and Yoon K H 2007 Colloidal gold nanoparticles as a blood-pool contrast agent for x-ray computed tomography in mice Invest. Radiol. 42 797-806 (Pubitemid 350126561)
8. Casscells W, Naghavi M and Willerson J T 2003 Vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque: a multifocal disease Circulation 107 2072-5 (Pubitemid 36532184)
9. Chithrani B D, Ghazani A A and Chan W C 2006 Determining the size and shape dependence of gold nanoparticle uptake into mammalian cells Nano Lett. 6 662-8
10. Ducote J L and Molloi S 2008 Quantification of breast density with dual energy mammography: a simulation study Med. Phys. 35 5411-8
11. Ducote J L, Xu T and Molloi S 2006 Optimization of a flat-panel based real time dual-energy system for cardiac imaging Med. Phys. 33 1562-8 (Pubitemid 43830244)
12. Fayad Z A and Fuster V 2001 Clinical imaging of the high-risk or vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque Circ. Res. 89 305-16 (Pubitemid 34132668)
13. Feuerlein S, Roessl E, Proksa R, Martens G, Klass O, Jeltsch M, Rasche V, Brambs H J, Hoffmann M H and Schlomka J P 2008 Multienergy photon-counting K-edge imaging: potential for improved luminal depiction in vascular imaging Radiology 249 1010-6
14. Hasegawa B 1991 The Physics of Medical X-Ray Imaging (Madison, WI: Medical Physics Publishing Company)
15. Hyafil F, Cornily J C, Feig J E, Gordon R, Vucic E, Amirbekian V, Fisher E A, Fuster V, Feldman L J and Fayad Z A 2007 Noninvasive detection of macrophages using a nanoparticulate contrast agent for computed tomography Nat. Med. 13 636-41 (Pubitemid 46828482)
16. Johns P C and Yaffe M J 1985 Theoretical optimization of dual-energy x-ray imaging with application to mammography Med. Phys. 12 289-96 (Pubitemid 15042813)
17. Johnson T R et al 2007 Material differentiation by dual energy CT: initial experience Eur. Radiol. 17 1510-7 (Pubitemid 46767599)
18. Johnson T R C 2009 Dual-energy CT technical background Multislice CT ed Reiser M F et al (Berlin: Springer) pp 65-73
19. Kalender W A 2005 Computed Tomography: Fundamentals, System Technology, Image Quality, Applications (New York: Wiley-VCH)
20. Kalender W A and Kyriakou Y 2007 Flat-detector computed tomography (FD-CT) Eur. Radiol. 17 2767-79 (Pubitemid 47603972)
21. Kashani H, Varon C A, Paul N S, Gang G J, Van Metter R, Yorkston J and Siewerdsen J H 2009 Diagnostic performance of a prototype dual-energy chest imaging system ROC analysis Acad. Radiol. 17 298-308
22. Kattumuri V, Katti K, Bhaskaran S, Boote E J, Casteel S W, Fent G M, Robertson D J, Chandrasekhar M, Kannan R and Katti K V 2007 Gum arabic as a phytochemical construct for the stabilization of gold nanoparticles: in vivo pharmacokinetics and x-ray-contrast-imaging studies Small 3 333-41
23. Kim D, Park S, Lee J H, Jeong Y Y and Jon S 2007 Antibiofouling polymer-coated gold nanoparticles as a contrast agent for in vivo x-ray computed tomography imaging (vol 129, pg 7661, 2007) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129 12585 (Pubitemid 47598259)
24. Lemacks M R, Kappadath S C, Shaw C C, Liu X and Whitman G J 2002 A dual-energy subtraction technique for microcalcification imaging in digital mammography-a signal-to-noise analysis Med. Phys. 29 1739-51 (Pubitemid 35364210)
25. Lendon C L, Davies M J, Born G V and Richardson P D 1991 Atherosclerotic plaque caps are locally weakened when macrophages density is increased Atherosclerosis 87 87-90
26. Liu X, Yu L, Primak A N and McCollough C H 2009 Quantitative imaging of element composition and mass fraction using dual-energy CT: three-material decomposition Med. Phys. 36 1602-9
27. MacNeill B D, Lowe H C, Takano M, Fuster V and Jang I K 2003 Intravascular modalities for detection of vulnerable plaque: current status Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol. 23 1333-42 (Pubitemid 36994519)
28. McMahon S J, Mendenhall M H, Jain S and Currell F 2008 Radiotherapy in the presence of contrast agents: a general figure of merit and its application to gold nanoparticles Phys. Med. Biol. 53 5635-51
29. Nowotny R and Höfer A 1985 Ein Programm für die Berechnung von diagnostischen Röntgenspektren Fortschr. Röntgenstr. 142 685-9
30. Primak A N, Ramirez Giraldo J C, Liu X, Yu L and McCollough C H 2009 Improved dual-energy material discrimination for dual-source CT by means of additional spectral filtration Med. Phys. 36 1359-69
31. Shkumat N A, Siewerdsen J H, Dhanantwari A C, Williams D B, Richard S, Paul N S, Yorkston J and Van Metter R 2007 Optimization of image acquisition techniques for dual-energy imaging of the chest Med. Phys. 34 3904-15 (Pubitemid 47482892)
32. Sidky E Y, Zou Y and Pan X 2004 Impact of polychromatic x-ray sources on helical, cone-beam computed tomography and dual-energy methods Phys. Med. Biol. 49 2293-303 (Pubitemid 38867902)
33. Slater J C 1964 Atomic radii in crystals J. Chem. Phys. 41 3199
34. Turkevich J, Stevenson P C and Hillier J 1951 A study of the nucleation and growth processes in the synthesis of colloidal gold Discuss. Faraday Soc. 11 55-75
35. Van Lysel M S 1994 Optimization of beam parameters for dual-energy digital subtraction angiography Med. Phys. 21 219-26 (Pubitemid 24068786)
36. Wang B, Yantsen E, Larson T, Karpiouk A B, Sethuraman S, Su J L, Sokolov K and Emelianov S Y 2009 Plasmonic intravascular photoacoustic imaging for detection of macrophages in atherosclerotic plaques Nano Lett. 9 2212-7
37. Zhou Y 2010 Personal communication