Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, College of Future Technology, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
Small. 2022 Mar;18(12):e2105989. doi: 10.1002/smll.202105989. Epub 2022 Jan 27.
Biomedical imaging technology (like digital subtraction angiography (DSA)) based on contrast agents has been widely employed in the diagnosis of vascular-related diseases. While the DSA achieves the high-resolution observation of specified vessels and their downstream perfusion at the cost of invasive, radioactive operation and hepatorenal toxicity. To address those problems, this study develops arterial labeling ultrasound (US) subtraction angiography (ALUSA) based on a new perfluorobutane (PFB) nanodroplets with a lower vaporization threshold through spontaneous nucleation. The nanodroplets can be selectively vaporized to microbubbles, indicating a highly echogenic signal at B-mode images only using a diagnostic transducer. By labeling a single blood vessel for nanodroplets vaporization and tracking its downstream blood perfusion in segmental renal arteries at a frame rate of 500 Hz. The results demonstrate the color-coded super-resolution ALUSA image, exhibiting the downstream arcuate and interlobular arteries of each segmental renal artery with a resolution of 36 µm in a rabbit kidney. Furthermore, ALUSA could offer the vascular structures, blood flow velocity, and direction of their primary supply vessels in the mouse breast tumor. ALUSA fills the gap of noninvasive labeling angiography in US and opens a broad vista in the diagnosis and treatment of tumor and vascular-related diseases.
基于造影剂的生物医学成像技术(如数字减影血管造影术(DSA))已广泛应用于血管相关疾病的诊断。然而,DSA 虽然能够以侵入性、放射性操作和肝肾毒性为代价实现特定血管及其下游灌注的高分辨率观察。为了解决这些问题,本研究开发了一种基于新的全氟丁烷(PFB)纳米液滴的动脉标记超声(US)减影血管造影术(ALUSA),该纳米液滴具有通过自发成核降低的蒸气压阈值。纳米液滴可以选择性地蒸发成微泡,仅使用诊断换能器在 B 模式图像上显示出高度超声增强的信号。通过对单个血管进行纳米液滴蒸发标记,并以 500 Hz 的帧率跟踪其在节段性肾动脉中的下游血液灌注。结果显示出彩色编码的超高分辨率 ALUSA 图像,在兔肾中显示出每个节段性肾动脉的下游弓形动脉和小叶间动脉,分辨率为 36 µm。此外,ALUSA 可以提供小鼠乳腺肿瘤中血管结构、血流速度及其主要供应血管的方向。ALUSA 填补了超声无创伤性标记血管造影术的空白,为肿瘤和血管相关疾病的诊断和治疗开辟了广阔的前景。
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