Molecular Imaging of Small Animals

Habib Zaidi, Ph.D is Chief Physicist and head of the PET Instrumentation & Neuroimaging Laboratory at Geneva University Hospital and faculty member at the medical school of Geneva University. He is also a Professor of Medical Physics at the University Medical Center of Groningen (The Netherlands) and visiting Professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electronique et de ses Applications (ENSEA, France). Dr. Zaidi is actively involved in developing imaging solutions for cutting-edge interdisciplinary biomedical research and clinical diagnosis in addition to lecturing undergraduate and postgraduate courses on medical physics and medical imaging.

"Molecular Imaging of Small Animals: Instrumentation and Applications, Zaidi ... examines the most important techniques used for small-animal molecular imaging, analysing every aspect of each modality. ... this publication should be available in all departments of nuclear medicine and diagnostic imaging, considering that molecular imaging is already living in the present." (Giuseppe Danilo Di Stasio and Luigi Mansi, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Vol. 42, 2015)

• Scintillation detectors for small-animal imaging.- Solid-state detectors for small-animal imaging.- Photodetectors for small-animal imaging instrumentation.- Design considerations of small-animal SPECT cameras.- Design considerations of small-animal PET scanners.- Design considerations of small-animal CT systems.- Small-animal MRI instrumentation.- Preclinical optical molecular imaging.- Advances in radiotracer development for molecular imaging.- Image registration for multimodality small-animal imaging.- Dual-modality preclinical SPECT/PET instrumentation.- Dual-modality preclinical SPECT/CT instrumentation.- Dual-modality preclinical PET/CT instrumentation.- Dual-modality preclinical SPECT/MR instrumentation.- Dual-modality preclinical PET/MR instrumentation.- Dual-modality preclinical PET/OI instrumentation.- Quantification of small-animal multimodality imaging data.- Animal handling and preparation for imaging.- Applications of molecular small-animal imaging in neurologyand psychiatry.- Applications of molecular small-animal imaging in cardiology.- Applications of molecular small-animal imaging in oncology.- Applications of molecular small-animal imaging in inflammation and infection.- Role of small-animal molecular imaging of gene expression.- Applications of molecular small-animal imaging in drug development.- Multimodality molecular imaging: A futuristic outlook.