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Unpublished Paper
Quantitative pharmacodynamic imaging by a novel method
(2007)
  • Kevin J Black, Washington University School of Medicine
  • Jonathan M Koller, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  • Bradley D Miller, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Abstract

Pharmacological challenge imaging has mapped, but not quantified, the sensitivity of a biological system to a given drug. We describe a novel method called quantitative pharmacodynamic imaging. This method combines pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modeling, repeated small doses of a challenge drug over a short time scale, and functional imaging to rapidly provide quantitative estimates of drug sensitivity including EC50 (the concentration of drug that produces half the maximum possible effect). We test the method with simulated data, assuming a typical sigmoidal dose-response curve and assuming imperfect imaging that includes artifactual baseline signal drift and random error. With these few assumptions, quantitative pharmacodynamic imaging reliably estimates EC50 from the simulated data, except when noise overwhelms the drug effect or when the effect occurs only at high doses. In preliminary fMRI studies of primate brain using a dopamine agonist, the observed noise level is modest compared with observed drug effects, and a quantitative EC50 can be obtained from some regional time-activity curves. Taken together, these results suggest that research and clinical applications for quantitative pharmacodynamic imaging are realistic.

Keywords
  • pharmacodynamics,
  • PK-PD modeling,
  • neuroimaging,
  • phMRI
Publication Date
October 23, 2007
Comments

This work is a preprint and has not been published.

Citation Information
Kevin J. Black, Jonathan M. Koller, and Bradley D. Miller. 2007. "Quantitative pharmacodynamic imaging by a novel method." arXiv:1304.5756v1 [q-bio.QM] or The SelectedWorks of Kevin J. Black.