Department of Radiology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, China.
Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China.
ACS Nano. 2024 Aug 13;18(32):21112-21124. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.4c02611. Epub 2024 Aug 2.
The precise assessment of vascular heterogeneity in brain tumors is vital for diagnosing, grading, predicting progression, and guiding treatment decisions. However, currently, there is a significant shortage of high-resolution imaging approaches. Herein, we propose a contrast-enhanced susceptibility-weighted imaging (CE-SWI) utilizing the minimalist dextran-modified FeO nanoparticles (Dextran@FeO NPs) for ultrahigh-resolution mapping of vasculature in brain tumors. The Dextran@FeO NPs are prepared via a facile coprecipitation method under room temperature, and exhibit small hydrodynamic size (28 nm), good solubility, excellent biocompatibility, and high transverse relaxivity (*, 159.7 mM s) under 9.4 T magnetic field. The Dextran@FeO NPs-enhanced SWI can increase the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) of cerebral vessels to 2.5 times that before injection and achieves ultrahigh-spatial-resolution visualization of microvessels as small as 0.1 mm in diameter. This advanced imaging capability not only allows for the detailed mapping of both enlarged peritumoral drainage vessels and the intratumoral microvessels, but also facilitates the sensitive imaging detection of vascular permeability deterioration in a C6 cells-bearing rat glioblastoma model. Our proposed Dextran@FeO NPs-enhanced SWI provides a powerful imaging technique with great clinical translation potential for the precise theranostics of brain tumors.
精确评估脑肿瘤的血管异质性对于诊断、分级、预测进展和指导治疗决策至关重要。然而,目前缺乏高分辨率的成像方法。在此,我们提出了一种利用最小化葡聚糖修饰的 FeO 纳米粒子(Dextran@FeO NPs)的对比增强磁化率加权成像(CE-SWI),用于超高分辨率脑肿瘤血管成像。Dextran@FeO NPs 通过室温下的简单共沉淀法制备,具有小的水动力尺寸(28nm)、良好的溶解性、优异的生物相容性和在 9.4T 磁场下的高横向弛豫率(*,159.7mM s)。Dextran@FeO NPs 增强的 SWI 可以将脑血管的对比噪声比(CNR)提高到注射前的 2.5 倍,并实现直径小至 0.1mm 的微血管的超高空间分辨率可视化。这种先进的成像能力不仅可以详细描绘扩大的瘤周引流血管和肿瘤内微血管,还可以敏感地检测 C6 细胞荷瘤大鼠模型中血管通透性的恶化。我们提出的 Dextran@FeO NPs 增强的 SWI 为脑肿瘤的精确治疗提供了一种具有很大临床转化潜力的强大成像技术。
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