Multimodal in vivo blood flow sensing combining particle image velocimetry and optical tweezers-based blood steering

Robert Meissner; Wade W. Sugden; Arndt F. Siekmann; Cornelia Denz V

doi:10.1117/12.2290974

22 February 2018 Multimodal in vivo blood flow sensing combining particle image velocimetry and optical tweezers-based blood steering

Robert Meissner, Wade W. Sugden, Arndt F. Siekmann, Cornelia Denz V

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Proceedings Volume 10471, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Light in Cardiology 2018; 1047110 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290974
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

All higher developed organisms contain complex hierarchical networks of arteries, veins and capillaries. These constitute the cardiovascular system responsible for supplying nutrients, gas and waste exchange. Diseases related to the cardiovascular system are among the main causes for death worldwide. In order to understand the processes leading to arteriovenous malformation, we studied hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), which has a prevalence of 1:5000 worldwide and causes internal bleeding. In zebrafish, HHT is induced by mutation of the endoglin gene involved in HHT and observed to reduce red blood cell (RBC) flow to intersegmental vessels (ISVs) in the tail due to malformations of the dorsal aorta (DA) and posterior cardinal vein (PCV). However, these capillaries are still functional. Changes in the blood flow pattern are observed from in vivo data from zebrafish embryos through particle image velocimetry (PIV). Wall shear rates (WSRs) and blood flow velocities are obtained non-invasively with millisecond resolution. We observe significant increases of blood flow velocity in the DA for endoglin-deficient zebrafish embryos (mutants) at 3 days post fertilization. In the PCV, this increase is even more pronounced. We identified an increased similarity between the DA and the PCV of mutant fish compared to siblings, i.e., unaffected fish. To counteract the reduced RBC flow to ISVs we implement optical tweezers (OT). RBCs are steered into previously unperfused ISVs showing a significant increase of RBC count per minute. We discuss limitations with respect to biocompatibility of optical tweezers in vivo and determination of in vivo wall shear stress (WSS) connected to normal and endoglin-deficicent zebrafish embryos.

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Robert Meissner, Wade W. Sugden, Arndt F. Siekmann, and Cornelia Denz V "Multimodal in vivo blood flow sensing combining particle image velocimetry and optical tweezers-based blood steering", Proc. SPIE 10471, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Light in Cardiology 2018, 1047110 (22 February 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290974

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