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Monitor whole-body tumor burden and spread with 3D, high-resolution CFT imaging.

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CFT in oncology and immunotherapy research

Cryo-Fluorescence Tomography (CFT) and EMIT Imaging's flagship platform Xerra™ are powerful techniques for oncology and immunotherapy applications. CFT provides anatomical and 3D fluorescence images to help researchers discover more when studying tumor models including microenvironments, tumor heterogeneity, metastatic spread, and expression of specific biomarkers.

For metastatic tumor progression, CFT detects metastatic disease and provides high-resolution 3D molecular data of tumor burden and spread not typically visualized in other imaging modalities. In addition, CFT is used to evaluate tumor metabolism and cell biology in response to genetic manipulations, pharmacologic agents, and cancer chemotherapy drugs.

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Whole-body drug biodistribution

Fibroblast-activation protein (FAP)

Preferential uptake

Findings: Data confirms drug preferential uptake in the tumor with minimal uptake in other organs and tissues.

1 µg dose, ZW800-1-labeled U87 xenograft 4 hrs post IV Imaged at 35 µm
Copyright 2023 Ratio Therapeutics Inc., used with permission
3D fluorescence (CFT)
3D fluorescence (CFT)
Anatomical white-light
Anatomical white-light
Fluorescence (CFT)
Fluorescence (CFT)
Anatomical + fluorescence
Anatomical + fluorescence
Tumor heterogeneity; signal in humerus
Tumor heterogeneity; signal in humerus: on-target signal in joints due to FAP expression in juvenile mice
Signal in femoral head
Signal in femoral head: on-target signal in joints due to FAP expression in juvenile mice
Co-localization of tumor and drug

Comparison of FLI and CFT

3D co-localization

Findings: CFT shows high-resolution, 3D co-localization of tumor cells and drugs, complementing 2D in vivo imaging.

Orthotopic ovarian cancer, tdTomato HER2-targeted antibody, AF647
Ovarian cancer cells (tdTomato) - FLI
Ovarian cancer cells (tdTomato) — FLI
Ovarian cancer cells (tdTomato) - 3D CFT
Ovarian cancer cells (tdTomato) — 3D CFT
HER2-targeting protein (AF647) - FLI
HER2-targeting protein (AF647) — FLI
HER2-targeting protein (AF647) - 3D CFT
HER2-targeting protein (AF647) — 3D CFT
Understanding disease models

Comparison of BLI and CFT

Metastatic lesions

Findings: The CFT image shows the primary tumor extent and heterogeneity as well as the metastatic lesions in the lungs.

MDA-MB-231 cells, ffLuc + DsRed Tracks flank tumor progression
DsRed mice provided by John Ronald, Robarts Research Institute
BLI (ffLuc)
BLI (ffLuc)
CFT (DsRed)
CFT (DsRed)
CFT (DsRed)
CFT (DsRed)

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