Sensing and enumerating rare circulating cells with diffuse light

Eric Zettergren; Dwayne Vickers; Mark Niedre

doi:10.1117/12.875332

11 February 2011 Sensing and enumerating rare circulating cells with diffuse light

Eric Zettergren, Dwayne Vickers, Mark Niedre

Proceedings Volume 7902, Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Biomolecules, Cells, and Tissues IX; 790229 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.875332
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Detection and quantification of circulating cells in live animals is a challenging and important problem in many areas of biomedical research. Current methods involve extraction of blood samples and counting of cells ex-vivo. Since only small blood volumes are analyzed at specific time points, monitoring of changes in cell populations over time is difficult and rare cells often escape detection. The goal of this research is to develop a method for enumerating very rare circulating cells in the bloodstream non-invasively. This would have many applications in biomedical research, including monitoring of cancer metastasis and tracking of hematopoietic stem cells. In this work we describe the optical configuration of our instrument which allows fluorescence detection of single cells in diffusive media at the mesoscopic scale. Our instrument design consists of two continuous wave laser diode sources and an 8-channel fiber coupled multi-anode photon counting PMT. Fluorescence detector fibers were arranged circularly around the target in a miniaturized ring configuration. Cell-simulating fluorescent microspheres and fluorescently-labeled cells were passed through a limb mimicking phantom with similar optical properties and background fluorescence as a limb of a mouse. Our data shows that we are able to successfully detect and count these with high quantitative accuracy. Future work includes characterization of our instrument using fluorescently labeled cells in-vivo. If successful, this technique would allow several orders of magnitude in vivo detection sensitivity improvement versus current approaches.

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Eric Zettergren, Dwayne Vickers, and Mark Niedre "Sensing and enumerating rare circulating cells with diffuse light", Proc. SPIE 7902, Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Biomolecules, Cells, and Tissues IX, 790229 (11 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.875332

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