Hurtado Estefania, Alvarez Xavier, Kaushal Deepak, Mehra Smriti, Ganusov Vitaly V
Host-Pathogen Interactions (HPI) program, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78245.
Disease Intervention and Prevention (DIP) program, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78245.
bioRxiv. 2025 Jul 7:2025.07.04.663191. doi: 10.1101/2025.07.04.663191.
Aerosol exposure of non-human primates () to () typically results in discrete sites of inflammation of the lung that is detectable by 2-deoxy-2-[fluorine-18]fluoro-D-glucose (F-)-based PET/CT scans. Such scans are often analyzed using software such as Invicro VivoQuant or OsiriX as 3D images by manual labeling sites of PET signal using 2D slices and by reporting maximal SUV either of the whole lung or of individual lesions. Here we propose a pipeline for analysis of the same PET/CT scans using Imaris, a proprietary software typically used for analysis of data from fluorescent microscopy experiments. We show that by using locations of spine vertebra (denoted as "landmarks") we can align serials scans of the same animal, and by using automated (with some manual corrections) image segmentation in 3D as "surfaces", we can accurately define location of all sites of inflammation in the lung and lung-associated thoracic lymph nodes (). We show that there is an excellent correlation between individual lesion's maximum SUV determined by Invicro VivoQuant and maximum intensity determined by Imaris suggesting utility of this approach. Imaris also provides wealth of additional information for each of the identified lesions such as volume, location, shape, surface area, and others, and each lesion can be exported in Virtual Reality file format (.wrl) allowing for detailed and rigorous analyses of how features of these PET-defined lesions evolve over time and correlate with the outcome of infection and/or treatment.
将非人灵长类动物暴露于气溶胶化的[具体物质未给出]通常会导致肺部出现离散的炎症部位,这可通过基于2-脱氧-2-[氟-18]氟-D-葡萄糖(F-)的PET/CT扫描检测到。此类扫描通常使用Invicro VivoQuant或OsiriX等软件进行分析,通过使用二维切片手动标记PET信号部位并报告全肺或单个病变的最大SUV,将其作为三维图像进行分析。在此,我们提出一种使用Imaris分析相同PET/CT扫描的流程,Imaris是一款通常用于分析荧光显微镜实验数据的专有软件。我们表明,通过使用脊椎骨的位置(表示为“地标”),我们可以对齐同一动物的连续扫描,并且通过在三维中使用自动(进行一些手动校正)图像分割作为“表面”,我们可以准确界定肺部和与肺相关的胸段淋巴结中所有炎症部位的位置。我们表明,Invicro VivoQuant确定的单个病变最大SUV与Imaris确定的最大强度之间存在极好的相关性,这表明该方法具有实用性。Imaris还为每个已识别的病变提供了大量额外信息,如体积、位置、形状、表面积等,并且每个病变都可以以虚拟现实文件格式(.wrl)导出,从而能够对这些PET定义病变的特征如何随时间演变以及与感染和/或治疗结果的相关性进行详细而严谨的分析。
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