OPTIMIZING EQUIPMENT FOR IMAGING MOLECULAR PROCESSES AUR-NIBIB Molecular Biology for Imagers Course Steve H. Fung, MD Assistant Professor of Radiology , Weill Cornell Medical College Staff Neuroradiologist, Chief of Clinical MR Research, The Methodist Hospital
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Molecular Imaging is the visualization, characterization, andmeasurement of biological processes at the molecular and cellular levels in humans and other living systems.
•Includes 2D and 3D imaging and quantification over time•Radiotracer imaging and nuclear medicine•MR imaging and MR spectroscopy•Optical imaging•Ultrasound•Other techniques
SNM and MICoE Standard Definitions Task Force, 2007
Molecular Imaging Agents are probes used to visualized,characterize, and measure biological processes in living systems.
•Endogenous molecules
••Exogenous probes
Molecular Imaging Instrumentation comprises of tools that enablevisualization and quantification in space and time of signals frommolecular imaging agents.
SNM and MICoE Standard Definitions Task Force, 2007