CHUN LI, PhD, is Professor and Ad Interim Chief, Chemistry Section, in the Department of Cancer Systems Imaging at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is Associate Editor of Cancer Nanotechnology and a member of the editorial boards of American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Li has more than 120 peer-reviewed publications and holds twenty-eight patents.MEI TIAN, MD, is Vice President of Hangzhou Binjiang Hospital and Professor of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine at The Second Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine. Dr. Tian is also an editorial consultant for The Lancet. She is a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Nuclear Medicine, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Nuclear Medicine Communications, and Oncology.

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• Preface ixcontributors xi1 Introduction to Molecular Imaging 1Vikas Kundra2 PET/SPECT: Instrumentation and Imaging Techniques 12Yuan-Chuan Tai3 Photoacoustic Tomography and Its Applications in Drug Delivery and Photothermal Therapy 45Liang Song and Lihong V. Wang4 Raman Microspectral Imaging for Label-Free Detection of Nanoparticle-Mediated Cellular and Subcellular Drug Delivery 70Tatyana Chernenko, Lara Milane, Christian Matthäus, Max Diem, and Mansoor Amiji5 A natomical and Functional MRI91Edward F. Jackson6 Quantitative Imaging in Drug Delivery 125Kooresh I. Shoghi7 PET Imaging of the Pharmacokinetics of Small Molecular-Weight Drugs 147Stephen M. Moerlein and Zhude Tu8 Imaging Peptides, Proteins, and Antibody Delivery 192Frederik L. Giesel and Clemens Kratochwil9 In Vivo Imaging and Delivery of siRNA199Zdravka Medarova and Anna Moore10 Imaging Cell Therapy 223Yajie Liang and Jeff W. M. Bulte11 Radiolabeled Liposomes as Drug Delivery Nanotheranostics 252William T. Phillips, Ande Bao, Keitaro Sou, Shihong Li, and Beth Goins12 Polymeric Micelles as Imaging Agents and Drug Delivery Systems 268Jun Zhao and Chun Li13 Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles: Translating Bench Opportunities to the Clinic 296G. M. Lanza, P. M. Winter, S. D. Caruthers, A. H. Schmieder, and S. A. Wickline14 Cancer Theranostics with Hollow Gold Nanospheres 308Wei Lu and Chun Li15 Imaging Pulmonary Drug Delivery 333Stephen P. Newman16 In Vivo Imaging for Validation of Oral Dose Performance 367Fiona J. McInnes and Howard N. E. Stevens17 Role of Large Animal Models in Translational Studies of Imaging and Targeted Drug Delivery 389Rajesh K. Uthamanthil and Mei Tian18 Imaging Transcatheter Delivery to Liver Tumors 412Adil Al-Nahhas, Meeran Naji, and Imene Zerizer19 Direct Visualization of Therapeutic Radionuclide Distribution Using Nuclear Medicine Imaging: I-131 in Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma 426Ho Young Lee, June-Key Chung, So Won Oh, Jong Jin Lee, Keon Wook Kang, Do Joon Park, Bo Youn Cho, and Myung Chul Lee20 Imaging Drug Delivery to the CNS Using Translational Positron Emission Tomography Studies 432Chi-Ming Lee, Katarina Varnäs, and Lars FardeIndex 449

CHUN LI, PhD, is Professor and Ad Interim Chief, Chemistry Section, in the Department of Cancer Systems Imaging at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is Associate Editor of Cancer Nanotechnology and a member of the editorial boards of American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Li has more than 120 peer-reviewed publications and holds twenty-eight patents.MEI TIAN, MD, is Vice President of Hangzhou Binjiang Hospital and Professor of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine at The Second Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine. Dr. Tian is also an editorial consultant for The Lancet. She is a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Nuclear Medicine, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Nuclear Medicine Communications, and Oncology.

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• Preface ixcontributors xi1 Introduction to Molecular Imaging 1Vikas Kundra2 PET/SPECT: Instrumentation and Imaging Techniques 12Yuan-Chuan Tai3 Photoacoustic Tomography and Its Applications in Drug Delivery and Photothermal Therapy 45Liang Song and Lihong V. Wang4 Raman Microspectral Imaging for Label-Free Detection of Nanoparticle-Mediated Cellular and Subcellular Drug Delivery 70Tatyana Chernenko, Lara Milane, Christian Matthäus, Max Diem, and Mansoor Amiji5 A natomical and Functional MRI91Edward F. Jackson6 Quantitative Imaging in Drug Delivery 125Kooresh I. Shoghi7 PET Imaging of the Pharmacokinetics of Small Molecular-Weight Drugs 147Stephen M. Moerlein and Zhude Tu8 Imaging Peptides, Proteins, and Antibody Delivery 192Frederik L. Giesel and Clemens Kratochwil9 In Vivo Imaging and Delivery of siRNA199Zdravka Medarova and Anna Moore10 Imaging Cell Therapy 223Yajie Liang and Jeff W. M. Bulte11 Radiolabeled Liposomes as Drug Delivery Nanotheranostics 252William T. Phillips, Ande Bao, Keitaro Sou, Shihong Li, and Beth Goins12 Polymeric Micelles as Imaging Agents and Drug Delivery Systems 268Jun Zhao and Chun Li13 Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles: Translating Bench Opportunities to the Clinic 296G. M. Lanza, P. M. Winter, S. D. Caruthers, A. H. Schmieder, and S. A. Wickline14 Cancer Theranostics with Hollow Gold Nanospheres 308Wei Lu and Chun Li15 Imaging Pulmonary Drug Delivery 333Stephen P. Newman16 In Vivo Imaging for Validation of Oral Dose Performance 367Fiona J. McInnes and Howard N. E. Stevens17 Role of Large Animal Models in Translational Studies of Imaging and Targeted Drug Delivery 389Rajesh K. Uthamanthil and Mei Tian18 Imaging Transcatheter Delivery to Liver Tumors 412Adil Al-Nahhas, Meeran Naji, and Imene Zerizer19 Direct Visualization of Therapeutic Radionuclide Distribution Using Nuclear Medicine Imaging: I-131 in Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma 426Ho Young Lee, June-Key Chung, So Won Oh, Jong Jin Lee, Keon Wook Kang, Do Joon Park, Bo Youn Cho, and Myung Chul Lee20 Imaging Drug Delivery to the CNS Using Translational Positron Emission Tomography Studies 432Chi-Ming Lee, Katarina Varnäs, and Lars FardeIndex 449

CHUN LI, PhD, is Professor and Ad Interim Chief, Chemistry Section, in the Department of Cancer Systems Imaging at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is Associate Editor of Cancer Nanotechnology and a member of the editorial boards of American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Li has more than 120 peer-reviewed publications and holds twenty-eight patents.MEI TIAN, MD, is Vice President of Hangzhou Binjiang Hospital and Professor of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine at The Second Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine. Dr. Tian is also an editorial consultant for The Lancet. She is a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Nuclear Medicine, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Nuclear Medicine Communications, and Oncology.

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• Preface ixcontributors xi1 Introduction to Molecular Imaging 1Vikas Kundra2 PET/SPECT: Instrumentation and Imaging Techniques 12Yuan-Chuan Tai3 Photoacoustic Tomography and Its Applications in Drug Delivery and Photothermal Therapy 45Liang Song and Lihong V. Wang4 Raman Microspectral Imaging for Label-Free Detection of Nanoparticle-Mediated Cellular and Subcellular Drug Delivery 70Tatyana Chernenko, Lara Milane, Christian Matthäus, Max Diem, and Mansoor Amiji5 A natomical and Functional MRI91Edward F. Jackson6 Quantitative Imaging in Drug Delivery 125Kooresh I. Shoghi7 PET Imaging of the Pharmacokinetics of Small Molecular-Weight Drugs 147Stephen M. Moerlein and Zhude Tu8 Imaging Peptides, Proteins, and Antibody Delivery 192Frederik L. Giesel and Clemens Kratochwil9 In Vivo Imaging and Delivery of siRNA199Zdravka Medarova and Anna Moore10 Imaging Cell Therapy 223Yajie Liang and Jeff W. M. Bulte11 Radiolabeled Liposomes as Drug Delivery Nanotheranostics 252William T. Phillips, Ande Bao, Keitaro Sou, Shihong Li, and Beth Goins12 Polymeric Micelles as Imaging Agents and Drug Delivery Systems 268Jun Zhao and Chun Li13 Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles: Translating Bench Opportunities to the Clinic 296G. M. Lanza, P. M. Winter, S. D. Caruthers, A. H. Schmieder, and S. A. Wickline14 Cancer Theranostics with Hollow Gold Nanospheres 308Wei Lu and Chun Li15 Imaging Pulmonary Drug Delivery 333Stephen P. Newman16 In Vivo Imaging for Validation of Oral Dose Performance 367Fiona J. McInnes and Howard N. E. Stevens17 Role of Large Animal Models in Translational Studies of Imaging and Targeted Drug Delivery 389Rajesh K. Uthamanthil and Mei Tian18 Imaging Transcatheter Delivery to Liver Tumors 412Adil Al-Nahhas, Meeran Naji, and Imene Zerizer19 Direct Visualization of Therapeutic Radionuclide Distribution Using Nuclear Medicine Imaging: I-131 in Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma 426Ho Young Lee, June-Key Chung, So Won Oh, Jong Jin Lee, Keon Wook Kang, Do Joon Park, Bo Youn Cho, and Myung Chul Lee20 Imaging Drug Delivery to the CNS Using Translational Positron Emission Tomography Studies 432Chi-Ming Lee, Katarina Varnäs, and Lars FardeIndex 449