Method for In-Vivo Fluorescence Imaging Contrast Enhancement through Light Modulation

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• 作者：Jaeyoung Kim ; Onseok Lee ; Seunghan Ha ; Jung Woo Lee ; Chilhwan Oh
• 关键词：Lock ; in technique ; Nanoparticle ; Fluorescent dye ; Contrast enhancement
• 刊名：Journal of Fluorescence
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：27
• 期：1
• 页码：13-20
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• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Biomedicine, general; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics; Biotechnology; Biochemistry, general; Analytical Chemistry;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-4994
• 卷排序：27

文摘

Early diagnosis is one of the most important factors that increase the therapeutic potential of the disease. Diagnoses conducted by conventional equipment are expensive, time-consuming, burdensome to patients, and do not have high success rates. Diagnostic methods have also been investigated using nanoparticles. However, there have been no significant improvements in the early diagnosis of disease. The diagnosis technique proposed in this paper consumes less time, is more cost-effective, and more accurate. It uses a new concept—a low-intensity fluorescence molecular imaging system with a lock-in technique. This study applied the lock-in technique to basic research in contrast enhancement and optimization. This improved fluorescence distribution analysis, resulting in increased resolution of optical molecular imaging for early diagnosis of disease. An experimental lock-in fluorescence imaging system, which used a variety of fluorescent dyes, achieved signal amplification 100 times greater than that of a conventional fluorescence imaging system. The results of this study demonstrate that the lock-in technique could significantly improve optical molecular imaging technology, making it possible to achieve early diagnosis of disease.