Highlights•Molecular imaging improves drug development efficiency and shortens
timings.•Molecular imaging can play an important part most phases of drug …

Imaging sciences have grown exponentially during the past three decades, and many
techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear tomographic imaging and X-ray …

The process of drug discovery and development requires enormous resources and time,
with increasing cost for new drug development. Molecular imaging techniques have …

In order to accelerate the drug discovery process and to increase the annual number of
approved drugs, pharmaceutical chemists have developed new procedures, such as …

Preclinical imaging with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computerised tomography
(CT), ultrasound (US), positron emission tomography (PET) or single-photon emission …

Molecular imaging can allow the non-invasive assessment of biological and biochemical
processes in living subjects. Such technologies therefore have the potential to enhance our …

Modern drug research is mechanism-based and the development of disease modifying
therapies involves the identification of molecular key players in the pathological cascade …

The development of novel drugs is a lengthy process requiring years of preclinical research
and many steps indispensable to ensure that the molecule of interest can be administered to …

A great many efforts have been made to accelerate the drug discovery and development
process, which is extremely time and money consuming. Recently developed molecular …

Molecular imaging biomarkers are playing an increasingly important role in efforts to
increase the probability of success of drug candidates by helping to validate novel drug …