Emerging Applications of Molecular Imaging to Oncology

Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. Here, once again, outstanding and original reviews are presented on a variety of topics. This volume, number 124, covers emerging applications of molecular imaging to oncology, including molecular-genetic imaging, imaging the tumor microenvironment, tracking cells and vaccines in vivo, and more.

Provides information on cancer researchOutstanding and original reviewsSuitable for researchers and students

1. Quantitative Radiology: Applications to Oncology
Edward H Herskovits
2. The Intricate Role of CXCR4 in Cancer
Samit Chatterjee, Babak Behnam Azad and Sridhar Nimmagadda
3. Recent Advances in Nanoparticle Based Nuclear Imaging of Cancers
Avinash Srivatsan and Xiaoyuan Chen
4. Molecular-Genetic Imaging of Cancer
Il Minn, Mitchell E. Menezes, Siddik Sarkar, Keerthi Yarlagadda, Swadesh K. Das, Luni Emdad, Devanand Sarkar, Paul B. Fisher and Martin G. Pomper
5. Real-Time Fluorescence Image-Guided Oncologic Surgery
Suman B. Mondal, Shengkui Gao, Nan Zhu, Rongguang Liang, Viktor Gruev and Samuel Achilefu
6. Cerenkov imaging: seeing the light
Sudeep Das and Jan Grimm
7. Molecular Imaging of the Tumor Microenvironment for Precision Medicine and Theranostics
Marie-France Penet, Balaji Krishnamachary, Zhihang Chen, Jiefu Jin and Zaver M. Bhujwalla
8. Tracking Cellular and Immune Therapies in Cancer
David M. Kurtz and Sanjiv S. Gambhir
9. Developing MR probes for Molecular Imaging
Michael T. McMahon and Kannie W.Y. Chan
10. Clinical Translation of Molecular Imaging Agents used in PET Studies of Cancer
Laura M. Kenny and Eric O. Aboagye