Molecular Imaging: Applications in Healthcare
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors and Healthcare".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 532
Special Issue Editors
Interests: organic synthesis; imaging probes
Interests: nanomedicine; drug delivery; nano-biointeractions; biomaterials; targeted drug delivery
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Molecular imaging (MI) imaging uses different physical properties to produce detectable signals, such as radioactivity, light, magnetic field interactions, and sound (ultrasound), in combination with a respective tracer or contrast agent. Over the last 25 years, MI modalities have been evolved and enabled us to non-invasively study variety of biological processes related to different diseases progression at the tissue, cellular and molecular levels. The information gained via molecular imaging led to advancing diagnosis, as well as early detection of variety of life-threatening diseases such as cancer, atherosclerosis etc. The goal of this Special Issue is to highlight the state of the imaging modalities, the tracer developmental strategies and applications in pre-clinical as well as clinical research. The issue will highlight contrast agents for stand-alone single modality, multi-modality suited and those changing signal properties in response to short-lived species. The ultimate goal is to show a tracers’ performance by in vivo detection. Therefore, probes suitable for or studied in vivo will be favored for the issue.
The journal Biosensors has played a major role in highlighting and recognizing the technologies needed for medical imaging diagnostics. This Special Issue on ‘Molecular Imaging’ will complement and expand on the scope of the journal by showcasing novel advances in multimodal imaging.
Both research papers and review articles will be considered. If you are interested in contributing to this Special Issue, I would very much appreciate receiving the tentative title of your contribution.
Dr. Srinivas Banala
Dr. Suresh Gadde
Guest Editors
If you want to learn more information or need any advice, you can contact the Special Issue Editor Jessica Zhou via <jessica.zhou@mdpi.com> directly.
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Keywords
- optical imaging
- photo-/opto-acoustic imaging
- positron/single-photon emission imaging
- magnetic resonance imaging
- invivo imaging modalities
- intravital imaging
- detection of short-lived species
- detection of biomarkers
