Against the backdrop of increased public health awareness, inorganic nanomaterials have
been widely explored as promising nanoagents for various kinds of biomedical applications …

The authors define molecular imaging, according to the Society of Nuclear Medicine and
Molecular Imaging, as the visualization, characterization, and measurement of biological …

Clinical oncology can benefit substantially from imaging technologies that reveal
physiological characteristics with multiscale observations. Complementing conventional …

For decades now, photoacoustic imaging (PAI) has been investigated to realize its potential
as a niche biomedical imaging modality. Despite its highly desirable optical contrast and …

Carbon dots (CDs) are widely used in biomedical imaging and cancer therapy due to their
excellent water solubility, low toxicity, satisfying biocompatibility, and good tissue …

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) constitutes a microvascular network responsible for excluding
most drugs from the brain. Treatment of brain tumors is limited by the impermeability of the …

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a promising emerging imaging modality that enables
spatially resolved imaging of optical tissue properties up to several centimeters deep in …

Multimodal imaging, which harnesses two or more imaging modalities to produce
complementary anatomical and molecular information of a living subject, has become as a …

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging has emerged as a powerful technique for the high resolution
visualization of biological processes within deep tissue. Through the development and …

Phthalocyanines, as an organic compound, are widely used in photodynamic therapy (PDT),
but they still have the defect of poor selectivity. By introducing the concept of activatable …