Monitoring of tumor response to cisplatin with simultaneous fluorescence and positron emission tomography: a feasibility study.

Dual modality molecular imaging can capture concurrent molecular events and evaluate therapeutic efficacy from uniquely different perspectives based on different molecular targets. In this work, dual modality tomographic imaging, F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose based positron emission tomography and subsurface fluorescence molecular tomography ([F-18]FDG-PET/subsurface FMT), is proposed to monitor tumor response to cisplatin on a mouse xenograft model in vivo. One mouse was administered with cisplatin (1.0 mg/kg) by intraperitoneal injection once every day for 14 days, and another mouse was administered with saline to serve as the control. Dual modality [F-18]FDG-PET/subsurface FMT imaging was conducted on days 0, 2, 5, 9, 15, and 22. In vivo imaging and quantitative analysis demonstrated the feasibility of [F-18]FDG-PET/subsurface FMT imaging in tracking the changes of [F-18]FDG tumor uptake and amount of red fluorescent protein (RFP) synthesized by tumor cells in the same mouse simultaneously. Dual modality [F-18]FDG-PET/subsurface FMT imaging may thus provide a powerful tool for better understanding disease progress and treatment evaluation from different perspectives. ((c) 2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)