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Tomographic fluorescence lifetime multiplexing in the spatial frequency domain.

Anand T N KumarSteven S HouWilliam L Rice
Published in: Optica (2018)
The ability to simultaneously recover multiple fluorophores within biological tissue (multiplexing) can have important applications for tracking parallel disease processes in vivo. Here we present a novel method for rapid and quantitative multiplexing within a scattering medium, such as biological tissue, based on fluorescence lifetime contrast. This method employs a tomographic inversion of the asymptotic (late) portion of time-resolved spatial frequency (SF) domain measurements. Using Monte Carlo simulations and phantom experiments, we show that the SF-asymptotic time domain (SF-ATD) approach provides a several-fold improvement in relative quantitation and localization accuracy over conventional SF-time domain inversion. We also show that the SF-ATD approach can exploit selective filtering of high spatial frequencies to dramatically improve reconstruction accuracy for fluorophores with subnanosecond lifetimes, which is typical of most near-infrared fluorophores. These results suggest that the SF-ATD approach will serve as a powerful new tool for whole-body lifetime multiplexing.
Keyphrases
  • monte carlo
  • contrast enhanced
  • single molecule
  • mass spectrometry
  • magnetic resonance imaging
  • computed tomography
  • molecular dynamics
  • sensitive detection
  • liquid chromatography