title: Modeling of nanotherapeutics delivery based on tumor perfusion.
abstract: Heterogeneities in the perfusion of solid tumors prevent optimal delivery of nanotherapeutics. Clinical imaging protocols to obtain patient-specific data have proven difficult to implement. It is challenging to determine which perfusion features hold greater prognostic value and to relate measurements to vessel structure and function. With the advent of systemically administered nanotherapeutics, whose delivery is dependent on overcoming diffusive and convective barriers to transport, such knowledge is increasingly important. We describe a framework for the automated evaluation of vascular perfusion curves measured at the single vessel level. Primary tumor fragments, collected from triple-negative breast cancer patients and grown as xenografts in mice, were injected with fluorescence contrast and monitored using intravital microscopy. The time to arterial peak and venous delay, two features whose probability distributions were measured directly from time-series curves, were analyzed using a Fuzzy C-mean (FCM) supervised classifier in order to rank individual tumors according to their perfusion characteristics. The resulting rankings correlated inversely with experimental nanoparticle accumulation measurements, enabling modeling of nanotherapeutics delivery without requiring any underlying assumptions about tissue structure or function, or heterogeneities contained within. With additional calibration, these methodologies may enable the study of nanotherapeutics delivery strategies in a variety of tumor models.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nanomedicine, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, 6670 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX 77030.
authors.forename: Anne L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: van de Ven
authors.forename: Behnaz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Abdollahi
authors.forename: Carlos J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Martinez
authors.forename: Lacey A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Burey
authors.forename: Melissa D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Landis
authors.forename: Jenny C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ferrari
authors.forename: Hermann B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Frieboes
keywords: cancer; data classifier; intravital microscopy; nanoparticles; vasculature
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