Molecular imaging is a field of medical imaging that focuses on imaging molecules of medical interest within living patients. This is in contrast to conventional methods for obtaining molecular information from preserved tissue samples, such as histology. Molecules of interest may be either ones produced naturally by the body, or synthetic molecules produced in a laboratory and injected into a patient by a doctor. The most common example of molecular imaging used clinically today is to inject a contrast agent (e.g., a microbubble, metal ion, or radioactive isotope) into a patient's bloodstream and to use an imaging modality (e.g., ultrasound, MRI, CT, PET) to track its movement in the body. Molecular imaging originated from the field of radiology from a need to better understand fundamental molecular processes inside organisms in a noninvasive manner.
Sample Chapter(s)
Preface (55 KB)
Components of the Book:
- Chapter 1
Cellular Uptake of Plain and SPION-Modified Microbubbles for Potential Use in Molecular Imaging
- Chapter 2
Applications of artificial intelligence and deep learning in molecular imaging and radiotherapy
- Chapter 3
Imaging of Tumor Spheroids, Dual-Isotope SPECT, and Autoradiographic Analysis to Assess the Tumor Uptake and Distribution of Different Nanobodies
- Chapter 4
Application of PET Tracers in Molecular Imaging for Breast Cancer
- Chapter 5
Engineered atherosclerosis-specific zinc ferrite nanocomplex-based MRI contrast agents
- Chapter 6
Clinical,imaging,and molecular analysis of pediatric pontine tumors lacking characteristic imaging features of DIPG
- Chapter 7
Translational molecular imaging in exocrine pancreatic cancer
- Chapter 8
Evaluation of ductalcar cinoma in situ grade via triple-modal molecular imaging of B7-H3 expression
- Chapter 9
Modifying the Siderophore Triacetylfusarinine C for Molecular Imaging of Fungal Infection
- Chapter 10
Novel Noninvasive Nuclear Medicine Imaging Techniques for Cardiac Inflammation
- Chapter 11
Assessing Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Dopaminergic Neuron Progenitor Transplants Using Non-invasive Imaging Techniques
- Chapter 12
Hybrid, metal oxide‑peptide amphiphile micelles for molecular magnetic resonance imaging of atherosclerosis
- Chapter 13
Multi-scale optoacoustic molecular imaging of braindiseases
- Chapter 14
Multimodal imaging of hair follicle bulge-derived stem cells in a mouse model of traumatic brain injury
- Chapter 15
Multimodal Imaging Techniques Show Differences in Homing Capacity Between Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Macrophages in Mouse Renal Injury Models
Readership:
Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in Advances in Molecular Imaging.
Kenneth Caidahl, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Habib Zaidi, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Geneva University Hospital, CH-1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland
Sabrina Oliveira, Division of Cell Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jagat Rakesh Kanwar, Nanomedicine-Laboratory of Immunology and Molecular Biomedical Research (NLIMBR), School of Medicine (SoM), Faculty of Health, Centre for Molecular and Medical Research (C-MMR), Deakin University,Australia
Christopher L. Tinkle, Department of Radiation Oncology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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