Diffuse fluorescence tomography offers a relatively low-cost and potentially high-throughout approach to preclinical in vivo tumor imaging. The methodology of optical data collection, calibration, and image reconstruction is presented for a computed tomography-guided non-contact time-domain system using fluorescent targeting of the tumor biomarker epidermal growth factor receptor in a mouse glioma model.
Tichauer, K. M., Holt, R. W., Samkoe, K. S., El-Ghussein, F., Gunn, J. R., Jermyn, M., Dehghani, H., Leblond, F., Pogue, B. W. Computed Tomography-guided Time-domain Diffuse Fluorescence Tomography in Small Animals for Localization of Cancer Biomarkers. J. Vis. Exp. (65), e4050, doi:10.3791/4050 (2012).