申请人:——
公开号:US20010001011A1
公开(公告)日:2001-05-10
System and method for radiographic imaging of tissue using a non-radioactive, radio-opaque imaging agent that accumulates intracellularly in tissue in proportion to its functional, or physiological, activity. In one embodiment, the imaging agent is a cell-membrane permeable, radio-opaque, high affinity ligand for the intracellular enzyme hexokinase. The imaging agent is administered to a patient, and after an accumulation interval, radiographic images are acquired. The imaging agent preferentially accumulates in malignant tissue and increases its radio-opacity because of its elevated glucose metabolic rate relative to benign and normal tissue. The tissue being examined is transilluminated by X-ray beams with preselected different mean energy spectra, and a separate radiographic image is acquired during transillumination by each beam. An image processing system performs a weighted combination of the acquired images to produce a single displayed image. The image processing procedure isolates the radiographic density contributed solely by differential accumulation of the imaging agent in malignant, benign, and normal tissue. The system and method thus provides a functional image displayed with the anatomical detail and spatial resolution of a radiographic image. The viewer may interactively control the relative proportion of radiographic density contributed by imaging agent, soft tissue, and bone to the displayed image, allowing the display of functional and anatomical information in complete registration, and facilitating localization of malignant tissue in relation to nearby anatomical structures. In other embodiments, the system and method may be used to detect enzymes, nucleic acids, coenzymes, fatty acids, and other cellular targets in diagnostic imaging applications.
一种无放射性、放射性不透明成像剂的放射性成像组织的系统和方法,该成像剂在组织内的细胞内积累与其功能或生理活性成比例。在一种实施例中,成像剂是一种细胞膜渗透性、放射性不透明、高亲和力的内源性酶己糖激酶的配体。将成像剂注入患者体内,经过积累时间后获得放射性图像。由于恶性组织的葡萄糖代谢率相对良性和正常组织升高,成像剂更倾向于在恶性组织中积累并增加其放射性。通过预选不同平均能谱的X射线束对被检查的组织进行透照,并在每个束的透照期间获取单独的放射性图像。图像处理系统对所获得的图像进行加权组合,以产生单个显示的图像。图像处理过程仅隔离成像剂在恶性、良性和正常组织中的不同积累所贡献的放射密度。因此,该系统和方法提供了一个功能图像,显示了放射性图像的解剖细节和空间分辨率。观察者可以交互地控制成像剂、软组织和骨骼对显示的图像所贡献的放射密度的相对比例,从而实现功能和解剖信息的完全对齐显示,并促进恶性组织与附近解剖结构的定位。在其他实施例中,该系统和方法可用于检测酶、核酸、辅酶、脂肪酸和其他细胞靶标的诊断成像应用。