Authors: Michalak, Gregory J.; Anderson, Heather A.; O'Neal, D. Patrick

Source: Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Volume 6, Number 1, February 2010 , pp. 73-81(9)

Publisher: American Scientific Publishers

Abstract:

We demonstrate a photometer based on pulse oximeter technology designed to test the feasibility of using non-invasive optics to quantify in vivo circulation parameters of optically-active particles by measuring changes in optical extinction introduced by the particles in a murine animal model. A real-time estimate of relative concentration was produced by collecting log-scaled bandpass pulsatile and non-pulsatile intensity (760 nm or 940 nm) near the extinction peak of the employed gold nanoshells and mathematically subtracting the pre-injection intensity through the murine subject. The circulation half-lives in four mice were estimated between 3 and 43 minutes compared to direct optical measurement of 5 μL blood draws with UV/Vis spectrophotometry which demonstrated nanoparticle extinctions ranging from 0.246 to 7.408 optical density (OD). A linear model fit relating the two methods produced an R² value of 0.75. The 1.795 OD negative bias (-4.98 × 10⁹ nanoparticles/ml) between the two methods describes the 35.5% (or 12.0 minutes) average error of prediction of the half-life. This report demonstrates that the circulation parameters of optically-active particles employed at therapeutically-relevant concentrations can be monitored in real-time using non-invasive optical techniques and advises further refinement.

Keywords: PULSE OXIMETER; PULSE DYE DENSITOMETER; THERMAL THERAPY; GOLD NANOSHELLS; CIRCULATION TIME; HALF-LIFE

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jbn.2010.1094

Publication date: 2010-02-01

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