Molecular Imaging of the Lungs

Daniel P. Schuster, Timothy S. Blackwell

• Methodologies. Molecular Imaging Probes for PET and SPECT. "Micro"-Instruments for Molecular Imaging with PET and SPECT. PET and SPECT Imaging. Imaging Cellular and Molecular Processes in the Lung Using Bioluminescent Reporter Genes. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Imaging the Mouse Lung with Micro-CT. Multimodal Noninvasive Imaging Strategies to Visualize Tissue-Specific Gene Expression with Transcriptional Amplification Approaches. Application to the Lungs. Gene Expression Imaging in the Lungs. Inflammation Imaging in the Lungs. Bioluminescence Imaging of Transcription Factor Activity in the Lungs. Molecular Imaging of Lung Cancer. Molecular Imaging of Protein-Protein Interactions in Living Animals. Functional Imaging of Cellular Death. Imaging Cell Trafficking. Imaging Angiogenesis in the Lungs. Molecular Imaging of the Airways. Functional Imaging of Rodent Lungs. Prospects for Molecular Imaging in Humans.