Recent Advances and Future Trends in Molecular Imaging
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Photochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 7896
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
“A century ago, the living body, like most of the material world, was opaque. Then Wilhelm Roentgen captured an X-ray image of his wife’s finger – her wedding ring “floating” around a white bone – and our range of vision changed forever”. From the words of Bettyann Holtzmann Kelves up to now, amazing progresses have been made in medical imaging.
From nuclear medicine to molecular imaging, radiotracers were used in conjunction with imaging technologies to observe complex biological processes at the early stage of the disease or for therapeutic follow-ups. Nowadays, this research area integrates a plethora of contrast agents with the utilization of a variety of additional imaging modalities, such as optical bioimaging, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasound imaging.
The last twenty years, considerable research efforts have been focused in the synthesis and validation of labeling probes or contrast agents, the development of molecular imaging instrumentation, and the development of algorithm and software tools for the reconstruction, the visualization and the analysis of molecular imaging data. However, many difficult challenges remain. Discussing these challenges in detail and illustrating recent progress and future directions, this Special Issue will collect high-quality, peer-reviewed, original research papers in the area of molecular imaging.
Dr. David Brasse
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- molecular imaging
- translational research
- multimodal approach
- artificial intelligence
- drug development
- radiolabeling
- new detector design
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