title: Electron paramagnetic resonance oxygen images correlate spatially and quantitatively with Oxylite oxygen measurements.
abstract: Tumor oxygenation predicts cancer therapy response and malignant phenotype. This has spawned a number of oxymetries. Comparison of different oxymetries is crucial for the validation and understanding of these techniques. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) imaging is a novel technique for providing quantitative high-resolution images of tumor and tissue oxygenation. This work compares sequences of tumor pO2 values from EPR oxygen images with sequences of oxygen measurements made along a track with an Oxylite oxygen probe. Four-dimensional (three spatial and one spectral) EPR oxygen images used spectroscopic imaging techniques to measure the width of a spectral line in each image voxel from a trityl spin probe (OX063, Amersham Health R&D) in the tissues and tumor of mice after spin probe injection. A simple calibration allows direct, quantitative translation of each line width to an oxygen concentration. These four-dimensional EPR images, obtained in 45 minutes from FSa fibrosarcomas grown in the legs of C3H mice, have a spatial resolution of approximately 1 mm and oxygen resolution of approximately 3 Torr. The position of the Oxylite track was measured within a 2-mm accuracy using a custom stereotactic positioning device. A total of nine images that involve 17 tracks were obtained. Of these, most showed good correlation between the Oxylite measured pO2 and a track located in the tumor within the uncertainties of the Oxylite localizability. The correlation was good both in terms of spatial distribution pattern and pO2 magnitude. The strong correlation of the two modalities corroborates EPR imaging as a useful tool for the study of tumor oxygenation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
authors.forename: Martyna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Elas
authors.forename: Kang-Hyun
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Ahn
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Parasca
authors.forename: Eugene D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Barth
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Chad
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Haney
authors.forename: Howard J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Halpern
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D004578:Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D005354:Fibrosarcoma / Q000378:metabolism; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D051379:Mice; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010092:Oximetry / Q000379:methods*; D010100:Oxygen / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D010641:Phenotype; D013053:Spectrophotometry; D013113:Spin Labels; D014965:X-Rays
chemical_list: D013113:Spin Labels; D010100:Oxygen