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. 2021 Nov 15;16(12):2707–2718. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.1c00549

Table 2. Summary of Key Advancements in Instrumentation and Imaging Methods for in Vivo BLI.

year technological advancement ref
2001 first commercial system designed for BLI of small animals (IVIS, Xenogen Corporation) (75)
2003 first bioluminescence tomography (BLT) prototype developed, enabling integration with CT for quantitative 3D localization of signals (76)
2006 development of spectral unmixing algorithms for separating signals from multiple BLI reporters (77)
2008 new imaging system developed for video-rate imaging of nonanaesthetized and freely moving mice (72)
2012 first time multiple BLI reporter genes were imaged in vivo using BLT (78)
2013 development of a 3D BLI method based on multiple rotating cameras for accelerated data acquisition and improved signal quantification (79)
2018 video-rate imaging of Akaluc-expressing striatal neurons in nonanaesthetized marmosets using a MIIS system (Molecular Devices Japan) (27)
2020 in vivo BLI in the second near-infrared region (1000–1700 nm) achieved using a InGaAs CCD camera (Princeton Instruments, NIRvana-LN) (80)