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Shingo Matsumoto, Fuminori Hyodo, Sankaran Subramanian, Nallathamby Devasahayam, Jeeva Munasinghe, Emi Hyodo, Chandramouli Gadisetti, John A. Cook, James B. Mitchell, Murali C. Krishna
Published in Volume 118, Issue 5
J Clin Invest. 2008; 118(5):1965–1973 doi:10.1172/JCI34928
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Figure 2
EPR oxygen imaging of normal muscle in live mice.

EPRI method allows the pO2 map from deep in tissue of healthy mouse to be obtained. The anatomic image from MRI (A) of the lower body of a healthy mouse (without tumor bearing) and corresponding pO2 map from EPRI (B) showed that the normal muscle region had relatively homogeneous pO2 distribution. The anatomic image (C) and pO2 image (D) were also obtained from the contra-lateral normal leg of a SCC tumor-bearing mouse, and compared with that of a healthy mouse. (E) There was no significant difference in pO2 between normal muscle tissues with or without tumor bearing as opposed to the significant, lower pO2 in tumor region of the SCC mouse.