Designing of Dual Pulse Photoacoustic Tomography for Imaging of Drug-Response and Tumor Growth

Authors: Bag A and Sen D, Dutta A

DOI: 10.23880/aabsc-16000231

Volume 7, Issue 2

Abstract

Detection of the real-time growth rate of cancer and visualization of the effectiveness of chemotherapy using the live cell imaging technique are yet to be invented though these could be conducive to monitoring the cancer treatment more precisely. In the present article, a new technique is proposed that will be able to accomplish the aforementioned necessity. The recent development and success of the use of organometallic carbonyl clusters as photoacoustic contrast agents and cancer drugs have fetched a few freedoms for the fate of new technologies towards the invention of Dual pulse photoacoustic tomography (DP-PAT) that could ease the detection and treatment of cancer using advanced clinical chemotherapy. This approach could be extended for monitoring and efficacy test of any kind of drugs provided that their optical absorption before and after drug action fall within the biomedical limit of radiation. It is also obvious that a similar analysis technique may be implemented for other imaging techniques like CT scan, PET scan, MRI, etc.

Keywords: Diagnosis; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

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