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

Medical imaging technologies have undergone explosive growth over the past few decades
and now play a central role in clinical oncology. But the truly transformative power of …

Molecular imaging is rapidly gaining recognition as a tool with the capacity to improve every
facet of cancer care. Molecular imaging in oncology can be defined as in vivo …

Molecular imaging is being hailed as the next great advance for imaging. This introductory
article in the molecular imaging series to be published over the next several months in …

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 …

The term molecular imaging can be broadly defined as the in vivo characterization and
measurement of biologic processes at the cellular and molecular level. In contradistinction to …

The integration of advances in molecular biology, synthetic chemistry and visualization
techniques has catapulted imaging into a molecular–functional realm, so that imaging is …

Importance Individualized cancer treatment, tailored to a particular patient and the tumor's
biological features (precision oncology), requires a detailed knowledge of tumor biology …

vitro, such as DNA microarray technology (3)(gene chips) and differential display (4). These
advances have enabled the recent sequencing of the human genome (5), providing a …

Imaging, including its use for innovative tissue sampling, is slowly being recognized as
playing a pivotal role in drug development, clinical trial design, and more effective delivery …