Imaging site-specific peptide-targeting in tumor tissues using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography

Lixin Ma; Miao Zhang; Ping Yu

doi:10.1117/12.874079

21 February 2011 Imaging site-specific peptide-targeting in tumor tissues using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography

Lixin Ma, Miao Zhang, Ping Yu

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Proceedings Volume 7890, Advanced Biomedical and Clinical Diagnostic Systems IX; 78900V (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.874079
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We report imaging studies on site-specific peptide-targeting in tumor tissues using newly developed optical peptide probes and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). The system used two broadband superluminescent light emission diodes with different central wavelengths. An electro-optic modulation in the reference beam was used to get full-range deep imaging inside tumor tissues. The optical probes were based on Bombesin (BBN) that is a fourteen amino acid peptide. BBN has high binding affinity to gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) receptors overexpressed on several human cancer cell lines. Fluorescence BBN probes were developed by conjugating the last eight residues of BBN, -Q-W-A-V-G-H-L-M-(NH₂), with Alexa Flour 680 or Alexa Fluor 750 dye molecules via amino acid linker -G-G-G. The SD-OCT imaging can identify normal tissue and tumor tissue through the difference in scattering coefficient, and trace the BBN conjugate probes through the absorption of the dye molecules using the twowavelength algorithm. We performed the specific uptake and receptor-blocking experiments of the optical BBN probes in severely compromised immunodeficient mouse model bearing human PC-3 prostate tumor xenografts. Tumor and muscle tissues were collected and used for SD-OCT imaging. The SD-OCT images showed fluorescence traces of the BBN probes in the peptide-targeted tumor tissues. Our results demonstrated that SD-OCT is a potential tool for preclinical and clinical early cancer detection.

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Lixin Ma, Miao Zhang, and Ping Yu "Imaging site-specific peptide-targeting in tumor tissues using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography", Proc. SPIE 7890, Advanced Biomedical and Clinical Diagnostic Systems IX, 78900V (21 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.874079

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