Visualization of topical drug delivery with label-free chemical imaging

Natalie A. Belsey, Vasundhara Tyagi, Jean Luc Vorng, Alex Dexter, Dimitrios Tsikritsis, Panagiota Zarmpi, Richard H. Guy

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Abstract

Recent advances in label-free chemical imaging approaches have yielded new methods for measuring drug distribution in biological tissues. Such techniques include Raman spectroscopy and multiphoton microscopies, in addition to a suite of powerful mass spectrometry imaging methods. These techniques offer complementary information, with different strengths and limitations. By combining several of these datasets using image registration, powerful visualization can be achieved, combining high chemical specificity and sensitivity with sub-micron spatial resolution. Here we present a correlative imaging example that combines nonlinear optical spectroscopies and secondary ion mass spectroscopy imaging, applied to the same skin sample, for label-free visualization of the tissue structure and the distribution of an applied model compound.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationVisualizing and Quantifying Drug Distribution in Tissue VIII
EditorsKin Foong Chan, Conor L. Evans
Place of PublicationWashington, U. S. A.
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510669017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Mar 2024
EventVisualizing and Quantifying Drug Distribution in Tissue VIII 2024 - San Francisco, USA United States
Duration: 27 Jan 2024 → …

Publication series

NameProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
Volume12821
ISSN (Print)1605-7422

Conference

ConferenceVisualizing and Quantifying Drug Distribution in Tissue VIII 2024
Country/TerritoryUSA United States
CitySan Francisco
Period27/01/24 → …

Funding

This work was funded by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award (1-U01-FD006533). The contents of this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by, FDA/HHS or the U.S. Government. The development of the methodologies used in this work was funded in part by Haleon CH SARL, and the authors are grateful to Dr Mila Boncheva Bettex for helpful discussions. Methodologies were also funded in part by the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology through the National Metrology Programme, and the authors thank Prof. Ian Gilmore (NPL) for helpful discussions. Support by the Community for Analytical Measurement Science is also gratefully acknowledged for a 2020 CAMS Fellowship Award to Natalie Belsey, funded by the Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund.

FundersFunder number
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services1-U01-FD006533

    Keywords

    • Correlative imaging
    • mass spectrometry imaging
    • SIMS
    • skin
    • SRS microscopy
    • topical drug delivery

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
    • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
    • Biomaterials
    • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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