Using Ultrasound to Image Bacteria in vivo: Acoustic Reporter Genes
Type
Blog Post
Published
June 19, 2018, 1:38 p.m.
... detects the signal of the reporter and fail to pinpoint what tissue or organ this signal is coming from... existing bacterial reporters
Limited Depth of Signal/Imaging: Fluorescent reporters are not as well ...confounding factors when attempting to interpret signals from these reporters.
Lack anatomical context/spatial...also scatter sound waves and therefore produce signals in ultrasound imaging. Ultrasound is an attractive...for differentiation of arg1 and arg2 ultrasound signals. This also means that multiplexing is possible ... arg1 gas vesicles and restore their ultrasound signal.
Using acoustic reporter genes for in vivo imaging...localize to somewhere in the mouse abdomen. arg1 signal, however, can be overlaid onto anatomical ultrasound...