Imaging Tumor Metabolism: Advance in Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance and Molecular Metabolomics
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Metabolomic Profiling Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: imaging tumor metabolism; hyperpolarized magnetic resonance imaging; positron emission tomography; magnetic resonance physics; spins dynamics; NMR metabolomics
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Dear Colleagues,
Molecular imaging is a technique that visualizes, characterizes, and measures the biological processes at the molecular and cellular levels in living systems. In recent years, there has been a growing interest among basic science researchers and clinicians in imaging tumor metabolism as a viable diagnostic tool in oncology. The resurgence of interests is to understand the molecular and cellular changes that occur in the dysregulated metabolism, how the tumor microenvironment directly affects metabolism, and how the metabolic vulnerability affects treatment response in different cancer systems.
Advancements in hyperpolarization technology in magnetic resonance (MR) have rapidly accelerated the application of this molecular imaging tool for noninvasively probing altered cancer metabolism in vivo. Emerging hyperpolarized metabolic imaging techniques will provide the opportunity to visualize the perturbation of metabolism as the cancer initiates, progresses, and responds to therapy.
This Special Issue is set up to encourage colleagues to publish their research studies on the following:
- Altered metabolism in different cancer systems;
- Imaging tumor metabolism using hyperpolarized magnetic resonance imaging;
- Identifying metabolic imaging biomarkers;
- Discussing the current state-of-the-art of hyperpolarization magnetic resonance.
My goal as the Guest Editor of this Special Issue on “Imaging Tumor Metabolism: Advance in Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance and Molecular Metabolomics” is to illustrate the current state-of-the-art in imaging tumor metabolism research. I hope an international panel of leading experts in the field will present a series of research articles from basic mechanistic research to translational perspective to give our readers a comprehensive view of this rapidly advancing field.
Dr. Prasanta Dutta
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- different techniques for hyperpolarization of magnetic resonances
- metabolism in cancer
- imaging tumor metabolism
- hyperpolarized magnetic resonance imaging
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