Molecular Imaging in Oncology: Recent Advances
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Methods and Technologies Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2024) | Viewed by 23045
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nuclear medicine; biomedical imaging; cancer pathogenesis and therapy
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Dear Colleagues,
Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging thrive under continuous change. Molecular imaging is a technique that facilitates the non-invasive imaging of molecular targets. As an imaging technique, PET has two unique characteristics: a very high sensitivity (at the picomolar level) and the possibility of visualizing and quantifying molecular processes and targets under investigation. Primarily, however, PET offers the opportunity to obtain pathophysiological information from living patients in a non-invasive and quantified way. In the current decade, a wave of new theranostic compounds, targeting the same receptor for imaging and therapy, will change the oncology therapeutic arsenal. The rapid development of quantitative molecular imaging (PET and SPECT), combined with high-level abilities in cross-sectional morphological imaging (CT and MRI), has excavated exciting opportunities. This way, the field of nuclear medicine has rejuvenated itself repeatedly. This Special Issue highlights the hot topics of the molecular imaging tracer principle, which provides rich soil for scientific discovery, clinical diagnosis, treatment response monitoring, image-guided decision making, precision medicine and personalized medicine, non-invasive tissue characterization, the development of new tracers and imaging biomarkers, the development of (radiomics-based) prediction tools, artificial intelligence, deep learning, Big Data, targeted radionuclide therapies, and personalized dosimetry.
Prof. Dr. Lioe-Fee de Geus-Oei
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nuclear medicine
- molecular imaging
- PET
- oncology
- cancer
- SPECT
- precision medicine
- personalized medicine
- biomarker
- targeted radionuclide therapies
- personalized dosimetry
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