Application of Nanotechnology in Medical Diagnosis and Imaging

Dear Colleagues,

Since the turn of the 21st century, nanotechnology has been widely applied in medical sciences and has changed the basis of disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Indeed, imaging using nanomaterials has a wide range of applications, such as targeting the root cause of diseases and identifying changes that occur in the body at the cellular/molecular level. These advances facilitate the provision of new prospective means to achieve diagnosis and treatment of various types of diseases at very early stages. Therefore, further advancements in nanomaterial-based imaging will significantly impact treatment options and healthcare costs in many countries.

Meanwhile, basic scientists in the biomedical field have recently been striving to improve the precision of capturing signals of biological events using various techniques, such as the following: 1) synthesis of novel biosensing nanomaterials for the investigation of important local events in living cells, such as changes in [Ca2+], [ATP], pH, temperature, and force; 2) development of innovative biosensing nanotechnology devices; and 3) evaluation of biosensing nanomaterials under critical experimental conditions (single molecules, cells, and in vivo). Moreover, new fluorescent protein technologies have facilitated high-precision imaging of DNA and RNA, as well as protein dynamics.

This Special Issue of Nanomaterials covers recent advances in nanotechnology from basic science to clinical science. Original research articles, as well as review articles, are welcome.

Dr. Norio Fukuda
Guest Editor

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• biosensors
• chemical sensors
• computed tomography (CT)
• disease prevention
• drug delivery system
• fluorescent proteins
• magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• nanoheaters
• nano-imaging
• nanomedicine
• nano/microdevices for biomedical use
• nanoparticles
• nanothermometers
• nuclear medicine
• ultrasound
• X-ray