Fig. 2 Example of simultaneous multi-element HPLC-ICP-MS analysis of a mixture of different compounds used in imaging applications at approximate compound concentrations of 1 μM.
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Another limitation is the use of a single-dose of each compound in the imaging study, a choice dictated by the complex and time consuming preparation and monitoring procedures used to ensure a tight control of animal physiology during the phMRI experiments.
A MALDI LTQ Orbitrap XL mass spectrometer (Thermo Scientific, Bremen, Germany), equipped with a 60 Hz 337 nm nitrogen pulse laser (LTB Lasertechnik Berlin GmbH, Berlin, Germany), was used in this study for compound tissue imaging.
Utilizing the surface plasmon resonance effect in gold nanoparticles enables their use as contrast agents in a variety of applications for compound cellular imaging.
One of the studies is looking at both biochemical compounds and imaging techniques; Kraus is in charge of the biochemical side, which is looking for biomarkers among compounds for which there are already commercially available test kits.
Consequently, using AMP-derived compounds as imaging agents would result in false-negative diagnostics where a persistent infection might easily be misjudged or overseen entirely.
For example, there are potential applications in studying the energy metabolism of non-glucose compounds in PET imaging in neurology and cancer diagnostics.
Thanks to his support, the field is now well-established with 11 compounds, plus two imaging agents, in clinical trials.
Graff-Radford et al. [11] recently reported the results from an investigation using [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography ([18F]FDG-PET) imaging and the pathologic association of CIS with autopsy and carbon 11-labelled Pittsburgh compound B ([11C]PiB) PET imaging in patients with DLB.
