Molecular Imaging in Nanomedical Research
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 27066
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Interests: nanomedicine; regenerative medicine; cell imaging; ageing; muscle atrophy/dystrophy; antioxidant processes
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Dear Colleagues,
Since the 1990s, nanomedicine has dealt with the development of nanomaterials for diagnostics or therapy. Especially in the last decade, the progress of nanomedical research took advantage of the widespread application in vitro and in vivo of imaging techniques for the characterization and preclinical/clinical testing of nanomedical tools. Light and electron microscopy, magnetic resonance imaging, optical imaging, positron emission tomography, and ultrasound imaging have mostly been used, while other imaging techniques have been originally applied to nanomedical issues, often adapting conventional methods to particular purposes; this has allowed us to successfully describe the biodistribution, targeting, efficacy and clearance of novel nanoconstructs in single cells, tissues, organs or the whole organisms.
This Special Issue will collect research and review articles as well as methodological papers to give a comprehensive overview of the role of imaging techniques for studying the structural and functional interactions of the nanoconstructs with the living systems. All researchers involved in nanomedical research (chemists, physicists, pharmacologists, biotechnologists, biologists, physicians) are invited to submit their manuscripts.
Prof. Manuela Malatesta
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Nanoparticle biodistribution
- Light microscopy
- Confocal fluorescence microscopy
- Super-resolution microscopy
- Electron microscopy
- Scanning probe microscopy
- Magnetic resonance imaging
- Optical imaging
- Positron emission tomography
- Ultrasound imaging
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