Metals play vital roles in nutrients and medicines and provide chemical functionalities that
are not accessible to purely organic compounds. At least 10 metals are essential for human …

Early cancer detection and perfect understanding of the disease are imperative toward
efficient treatments. It is straightforward that, for choosing a specific cancer treatment …

Molecular imaging is the visualization, characterization, and measurement of biological
processes at the molecular and cellular levels in humans and other living systems …

With Au nanocages as an example, we recently demonstrated that radioactive 198Au could
be incorporated into the crystal lattice of Au nanostructures for simple and reliable …

Metallic radionuclides possess a variety of half-lives, emission types, energies, and
branching ratios, making it possible to apply them as diagnostic and/or therapeutic agents …

Summation Copper-64 (T1/2= 12.7 hours; β+, 0.653 MeV [17.8%]; β−, 0.579 MeV [38.4%])
has decay characteristics that allow for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging and …

Purpose: The Cancer Imaging Program of the National Cancer Institute convened a
workshop to assess the current status of hypoxia imaging, to assess what is known about the …

Hypoxia, a condition of insufficient O 2 to support metabolism, occurs when the vascular
supply is interrupted, as in stroke or myocardial infarction, or when a tumor outgrows its …

Hypoxia is a pathological condition arising in living tissues when oxygen supply does not
adequately cover the cellular metabolic demand. Detection of this phenomenon in tumors is …

The importance of transition metals in biological processes has been well established.
Copper (Cu) is a transition metal that can exist in oxidised and reduced states. This allows it …