[Scintigraphic molecular imaging].
Modern medicine is currently focusing its basic and clinical research towards "molecular medicine". This trend, together with the decoding of the human genome and the resulting design and use of transgenic mouse models of human diseases, demands that innovative imaging approaches are developed for man and mice. Non-invasive imaging modalities capable of quantifying molecular processes in vivo (collectively defined as "molecular imaging" techniques) are extremely interesting in this respect. This review focuses on the clinical and experimental scintigraphic molecular-imaging modalities SPECT and PET, and summarizes their actual and future impact in medicine.
Hermann
Sven
S
Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Münster.
Stegger
Lars
L
Levkau
Bodo
B
Schober
Otmar
O
Schäfers
Michael
M
D000818:Animals; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D011859:Radiography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon