Magnetic resonance techniques are successfully utilized in a broad range of scientific
disciplines and in various practical applications, with medical magnetic resonance imaging …

Survival improves when cancer is detected early. However,~ 50% of cancers are at an
advanced stage when diagnosed. Early detection of cancer or precancerous change allows …

Nanomaterials, such as nanoparticles, nanorods, nanosphere, nanoshells, and nanostars,
are very commonly used in biomedical imaging and cancer therapy. They make excellent …

Metabolic anomalies contribute to tissue dysfunction. Current metabolism research spans
from organelles to populations, and new technologies can accommodate investigation …

Metabolic inhibitors have been used in oncology for decades, dating back to antimetabolites
developed in the 1940s. In the past 25 years, there has been increased recognition of …

Hyperpolarized (HP) carbon 13 (13C) MRI is an emerging molecular imaging method that
allows rapid, noninvasive, and pathway-specific investigation of dynamic metabolic and …

Metabolic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using hyperpolarized (HP) pyruvate is
becoming a non‐invasive technique for diagnosing, staging, and monitoring response to …

Radiation therapy (RT) continues to be one of the mainstays of cancer treatment.
Considerable efforts have been recently devoted to integrating MRI into clinical RT planning …

Our purpose is to investigate the feasibility of imaging tumor metabolism in breast cancer
patients using 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) of hyperpolarized …

Diamond particles containing color centers—fluorescent crystallographic defects embedded
within the diamond lattice—outperform other classes of fluorophores by providing a …