Imaging in the era of molecular oncology

R Weissleder, MJ Pittet - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
New technologies for imaging molecules, particularly optical technologies, are increasingly
being used to understand the complexity, diversity and in vivo behaviour of cancers.'Omic' …

Molecular imaging in drug development

JK Willmann, N Van Bruggen, LM Dinkelborg… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2008 - nature.com
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 …

Tutorial on diffuse light transport

SL Jacques, BW Pogue - Journal of biomedical optics, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A tutorial introduction to diffuse light transport is presented. The basic analytic equations of
time-resolved, steady-state and modulated light transport are introduced. The perturbation …

Magnetic resonance–coupled fluorescence tomography scanner for molecular imaging of tissue

SC Davis, BW Pogue, R Springett, C Leussler… - Review of Scientific …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
A multichannel spectrally resolved optical tomography system to image molecular targets in
small animals from within a clinical MRI is described. Long source/detector fibers operate in …

Noninvasive Raman tomographic imaging of canine bone tissue

MV Schulmerich, JH Cole, KA Dooley… - … of biomedical optics, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Raman spectroscopic diffuse tomographic imaging has been demonstrated for the first time.
It provides a noninvasive, label-free modality to image the chemical composition of human …

Autofluorescence insensitive imaging using upconverting nanocrystals in scattering media

CT Xu, N Svensson, J Axelsson, P Svenmarker… - Applied Physics …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
Autofluorescence is a nuisance in the field of fluorescence imaging and tomography of
exogenous molecular markers in tissue, degrading the quality of the collected data. In this …

Visualization of pulmonary inflammation using noninvasive fluorescence molecular imaging

J Haller, D Hyde, N Deliolanis… - Journal of Applied …, 2008 - journals.physiology.org
The ability to visualize molecular processes and cellular regulators of complex pulmonary
diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or adult …

In vivo mice lung tumor follow-up with fluorescence diffuse optical tomography

A Koenig, L Herve, V Josserand… - Journal of …, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present in vivo experiments conducted with a new fluorescence diffuse optical
tomographic (fDOT) system on cancerous mice bearing mammary murine tumors. We first …

Invincible, but not invisible: imaging approaches toward in vivo detection of cancer stem cells

LS Hart, WS El-Deiry - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2008 - ascopubs.org
With evidence emerging in support of a cancer stem-cell model of carcinogenesis, it is of
paramount importance to identify and image these elusive cells in their natural environment …

Noninvasive imaging of apoptosis in cardiovascular disease

EC Korngold, FA Jaffer, R Weissleder, DE Sosnovik - Heart failure reviews, 2008 - Springer
Recent advances in molecular imaging have permitted the noninvasive imaging of
apoptosis, a critical process underlying the pathogenesis of many diseases of the …