Molecular imaging: looking at problems, seeing solutions.
Noninvasive molecular-imaging technologies are providing researchers with exciting new opportunities to study small-animal models of human disease. With continued improvements in instrumentation, identification of better imaging targets by genome-based approaches, and design of better imaging probes by innovative chemistry, these technologies promise to play increasingly important roles in disease diagnosis and therapy.
Herschman
Harvey R
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Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, 341 Boyer Hall, 611 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. hherschman@mednet.ucla.edu
D000818:Animals; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D015870:Gene Expression; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D017930:Genes, Reporter; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D015336:Molecular Probe Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000639:trends; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon