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Abstract #3209

Measurement of tumor extracellular pH (pHe) by a PET/MRI co-inject reagent

Xiaofei Liang1, Lorenzo Palagi2, Allysa C. Pollard3, Jorge de la Cerda1, William Schuler1, Subasinghe Appuhamillage Amali Subasinghe1, Mark D. Pagel1, and Chetan B. Dhakan1
1Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States, 2University of Turin, Turin, Italy, 3Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: Contrast Agents, Cancer, Simultaneous PET/MRI, 68Ga contrast agent, extracellular pH measurement, 4T1

Motivation: The measurement of extracellular pH (pHe) is very important for studying the cancer development, progression, and therapeutic response.

Goal(s): Accurately measure the pHe for 4T1 tumor and 0.2 pH change in vitro independent on the concentration of MRI contrast reagent.

Approach: To co-inject the synthesized pH sensitive MRI contrast reagent and the PET reagent with the same pharmacokinetic functions and DCE MRI and dynamic PET scan were obtained simultaneously.

Results: The pHe change of the bicarbonate treatment for the acidosis tumor type can be measured by our PET/MRI co-inject reagent.

Impact: PET/MRI co-inject reagent makes it possible for the pHe measurement independent of the concentration of MRI contrast reagent.

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