| Literature DB >> 26477263 |
Boris Epel1, Howard J Halpern2.
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For over a century, it has been known that tumor hypoxia, regions of a tumor with low levels of oxygenation, are important contributors to tumor resistance to radiation therapy and failure of radiation treatment of cancer. Recently, using novel pulse electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) oxygen imaging, near absolute images of the partial pressure of oxygen (pO2) in tumors of living animals have been obtained. We discuss here the means by which EPR signals can be obtained in living tissues and tumors. We review development of EPR methods to image the pO2 in tumors and the potential for the pO2 image acquisition in human subjects.Entities:
Keywords: Elecctron paramagnetic resonance imaging; Image registration; Molecular O(2) imaging; Quantitative physiologic imaging
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26477263 PMCID: PMC4749023 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2015.08.017
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Methods Enzymol ISSN: 0076-6879 Impact factor: 1.600