Wilfried Reichardt,Dominik von Elverfeldt
Wilfried Reichardt
The evolving possibilities of molecular imaging (MI) are fundamentally changing the way we look at cancer, with imaging paradigms now shifting away from basic morphological measures toward the longitudinal assessment of functional, metaboli...
Benjamin L Franc,Youngho Seo,Robert Flavell et al.
Benjamin L Franc et al.
Molecular imaging enables both spatial and temporal understanding of the complex biologic systems underlying carcinogenesis and malignant spread. Single-photon emission tomography (SPECT) is a versatile nuclear imaging-based technique with ...
Michel Eisenblätter,Moritz Wildgruber
Michel Eisenblätter
Tissue has characteristic properties when it comes to light absorption and scattering. For optical (OI) and optoacoustic imaging (OAI) these properties can be utilised to visualise biological tissue characteristics, as, for example, the oxy...
Ultrasound Molecular Imaging of Cancer: Design and Formulation Strategies of Targeted Contrast Agents [0.03%]
癌症超声分子 imaging：靶向对比剂的设计与配方策略
Alexander L Klibanov
Alexander L Klibanov
Gas-filled particles (microbubbles) can be prepared and stabilized for intravascular use as contrast agents in ultrasound imaging. Microbubbles are used in clinics as blood pool contrast materials for the past two decades. Shell of these bu...
18F-Labeled Small-Molecule and Low-Molecular-Weight PET Tracers for the Noninvasive Detection of Cancer [0.03%]
18F标记的小分子和低分子量正电子发射断层扫描示踪剂的非侵入性检测癌症作用机制
Christopher M Waldmann,Klaus Kopka,Stefan Wagner
Christopher M Waldmann
Noninvasive molecular imaging of cancer by means of the scintigraphic imaging modalities PET, PET/CT, and PET/MRI represents a powerful diagnostic tool in modern nuclear medicine. Radiotracers labeled with the prominent positron emitter flu...
Hans-Jürgen Pietzsch,Constantin Mamat,Cristina Müller et al.
Hans-Jürgen Pietzsch et al.
Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is the state-of-the-art imaging modality in nuclear medicine despite the fact that only a few new SPECT tracers have become available in the past 20 years. Critical for the future success o...
Philipp Biegger,Mark E Ladd,Dorde Komljenovic
Philipp Biegger
Magnetic resonance imaging is characterized by high spatial resolution and unsurpassed soft tissue discrimination. Development and characterization of both intrinsic and extrinsic magnetic resonance (MR) imaging probes in the last decade ha...
Daniel Razansky,Vasilis Ntziachristos
Daniel Razansky
The present chapter summarizes progress with optical methods that go beyond human vision. The focus is on two particular technologies: fluorescence molecular imaging and optoacoustic (photoacoustic) imaging. The rationale for the selection ...
Ultrasound Imaging [0.03%]
超声波成像技术
Georg Schmitz,Stefanie Dencks
Georg Schmitz
Ultrasound imaging plays an important role in oncological imaging for more than five decades now. It can be applied in all tissues that are not occluded by bone or gas-filled regions. The quality of ultrasound images benefitted strongly fro...
Teresa Nolte,Nicolas Gross-Weege,Volkmar Schulz
Teresa Nolte
SPECT and PET are nuclear tomographic imaging modalities that visualize functional information based on the accumulation of radioactive tracer molecules. However, SPECT and PET lack anatomical information, which has motivated their combinat...