Three-dimensional spatiotemporal tracking of fluorine-18 radiolabeled yeast cells via positron emission particle tracking [electronic resource].
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Washington, D.C. : United States. National Nuclear Security Administration, 2017. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy
A method for Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) based on optical feature point identification techniques is demonstrated for use in low activity tracking experiments. Furthermore, a population of yeast cells of approximately 125,000 members is activated to roughly 55 Bq/cell by 18F uptake. An in vitro particle tracking experiment is performed with nearly 20 of these cells after decay to 32 Bq/cell. These cells are successfully identified and tracked simultaneously in this experiment. Our work extends the applicability of PEPT as a cell tracking method by allowing a number of cells to be tracked together, and demonstrating tracking for very low activity tracers.
Published through SciTech Connect. 07/06/2017. PLoS ONE 12 7 ISSN 1932-6203 AM Seth T. Langford; Cody S. Wiggins; Roque Santos; Melinda Hauser; Jeffrey M. Becker; Arthur E. Ruggles; Chin-Tu Chen. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)