1. High-resolution synchrotron K-edge subtraction CT allows tracking and quantifying therapeutic cells and their scaffold in a rat model of focal cerebral injury and can serve as a reference for spectral photon counting CT
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Clément Tavakoli, Elisa Cuccione, Chloé Dumot, Joëlle Balegamire, Salim Aymeric Si-Mohamed, Johoon Kim, Claire Crola-da-Silva, Yves Chevalier, Loïc Boussel, Philippe Douek, David Cormode, Hélène Elleaume, Emmanuel Brun, Marlène Wiart, Cardiovasculaire, métabolisme, diabétologie et nutrition (CarMeN), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Synchrotron Radiation for Biomedicine = Rayonnement SynchroTROn pour la Recherche BiomédicalE (STROBE), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Laboratoire d'automatique, de génie des procédés et de génie pharmaceutique (LAGEPP), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon (CPE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hôpital Louis Pradel [CHU - HCL], Centre de Recherche en Acquisition et Traitement de l'Image pour la Santé (CREATIS), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Pennsylvania, ANR-18-CE19-0003,BREAKTHRU,Développement de l'imagerie bicolore à l'aide d'un scanner X spectral à comptage de photons pour l'évaluation in-vivo de thérapies cellulaires(2018), European Project: ESRF, European Project: 643694,SPCCT, Wiart, Marlene, APPEL À PROJETS GÉNÉRIQUE 2018 - Développement de l'imagerie bicolore à l'aide d'un scanner X spectral à comptage de photons pour l'évaluation in-vivo de thérapies cellulaires - - BREAKTHRU2018 - ANR-18-CE19-0003 - AAPG2018 - VALID, MD1094 - ESRF - INCOMING, H2020 - SPCCT - 643694 - INCOMING, and Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Synchrotron K-edge subtraction CT ,[SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics] ,cell tracking ,[SPI] Engineering Sciences [physics] ,neurology ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,spectral photon-counting CT ,Biomedical Engineering ,regenerative medicine ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous) ,Biotechnology - Abstract
International audience; Background: The objective of this study was to demonstrate that synchrotron K-edge subtraction tomography (SKES-CT) can simultaneously track therapeutic cells and their encapsulating carrier, in vivo, in a rat model of focal brain injury using a dual-contrast agent approach. The second objective was to determine if SKES-CT could be used as a reference method for spectral photon counting tomography (SPCCT). Methods: Phantoms containing different concentrations of gold and iodine nanoparticles (AuNPS/INPs) were imaged with SKES-CT and SPCCT to assess their performances. A pre-clinical study was performed in rats with focal cerebral injury which intracerebrally received AuNPs-labelled therapeutic cells encapsulated in a INPs-labelled scaffold. Animals were imaged in vivo with SKES-CT and back-to-back with SPCCT. Results: SKES-CT revealed to be reliable for quantification of gold and iodine, whether alone or mixed. In the preclinical model, SKES-CT showed that AuNPs remained at the site of cell injection, while INPs expanded within and/or along the lesion border, suggesting dissociation of both components in the first days post-administration. Compared to SKES-CT, SPCCT was able to correctly locate gold, but not completely located iodine. When SKES-CT was used as reference, SPCCT gold quantification appeared very accurate both in vitro and in vivo. Iodine quantification by SPCCT was also quite accurate, albeit less so than for gold. Conclusion: We here provide the proof-of-concept that SKES-CT is a novel method of choice for performing dual-contrast agent imaging in the context of brain regenerative therapy. SKES-CT may also serve as ground truth for emerging technologies such as multicolour clinical SPCCT.
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- 2023