Back to the Future II—a comprehensive update on the rapidly evolving field of lymphatic imaging and interventions

CC Pieper - Investigative Radiology, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Lymphatic imaging and interventional therapies of disorders affecting the lymphatic vascular
system have evolved rapidly in recent … imaging and the scientific focus shifted to lymph node …

Imaging of the lymphatic system: new horizons

T Barrett, PL Choyke… - … media & molecular imaging, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
imaging may be more appropriate for certain lymphatic disorders. The field of lymphatic imaging
is ever evolving… agent, thus it quickly opacifies and washes out of the lymph nodes. This …

Management of prostate cancer patients with lymph node involvement: a rapidly evolving paradigm

G Créhange, CP Chen, CC Hsu, N Kased… - Cancer treatment …, 2012 - Elsevier
… At UCSF we have had limited but promising experience with sentinel lymph node (SLN)
imaging. The concept of SLN involves using imaging to facilitate selective LN dissection in order …

Preclinical lymphatic imaging

F Zhang, G Niu, G Lu, X Chen - Molecular Imaging and Biology, 2011 - Springer
… The field of lymphatic imaging is ever evolving, and … to improve the research of lymphatic
vascular system in health and … new imaging modalities contributed to the rapid expansion of …

The bright future of nanotechnology in lymphatic system imaging and imaging-guided surgery

S Qi, X Wang, K Chang, W Shen, G Yu, J Du - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
… It can be specifically and rapidly taken up by lymphatic vessels owing to its relatively small
size (about 7 nm), and allowing accurate identification and retention in SLNs by mannose-…

Imaging the central conducting lymphatics: initial experience with dynamic MR lymphangiography

R Krishnamurthy, A Hernandez, S Kavuk, A Annam… - Radiology, 2015 - pubs.rsna.org
… After intranodal injection in the inguinal regions bilaterally, the contrast material appeared
in the retroperitoneal lymphatics and promptly filled the cisterna chyli and thoracic duct. The …

Evolving imaging techniques for staging axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer

S Lowes, A Leaver, K Cox, K Satchithananda… - Clinical Radiology, 2018 - Elsevier
… The microbubbles rapidly enter the lymphatics of the breast tissue, and, using dedicated
software on the ultrasound machine, can be traced within seconds to the SLN (Fig 6). This is a …

Image-guided oncologic surgery using invisible light: completed pre-clinical development for sentinel lymph node mapping

E Tanaka, HS Choi, H Fujii, MG Bawendi… - Annals of surgical …, 2006 - Springer
… Both of these organic tracers have a HD of ≈ 7 nm, permitting them to quickly enter lymphatics,
and travel rapidly to the SLN; they will also flow through the SLN if given enough time (…

New diagnostic modalities in the evaluation of lymphedema

TF O'Donnell Jr, JC Rasmussen… - … : Venous and Lymphatic …, 2017 - Elsevier
… these imaging modalities and their use in lymphatic imaging. … that are capable of imaging
ICG in the lymphatics as well as in … in this early but rapidly evolving imaging modality, however, …

Targeting lymphatic function as a novel therapeutic intervention for rheumatoid arthritis

EM Bouta, RD Bell, H Rahimi, L Xing… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
… lead to lymph generation and lymphatic contraction in human joints is extremely limited, and
studies that elucidate the synovial lymphatic system are at the forefront of this field. … imaging