BACKGROUND Early detection of lung cancer is known to improve the chances of successful treatment. However, lungs are soft tissues with complex three-dimensional configuration. Conventional X-ray imaging is based purely on absorption resulting in very low contrast when imaging soft tissues without contrast agents. It is difficult to obtain adequate information of lung lesions from conventional ...

Until now, the major part of NMR Imaging studies were finalized to diagnostic goals. Hence the main subject of imaging works were the water mobile molecules of biological tissues. Other fields of recent interest were the ima ging of nuclei different from protons and high spatial resolution (NMR microscopy). Another branch of great intere st is the imaging of the broad band components of biologi...

Positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are widely used in vivo imaging technologies with both clinical and biomedical research applications. The strengths of MRI include high-resolution, high-contrast morphologic imaging of soft tissues; the ability to image physiologic parameters such as diffusion and changes in oxygenation level resulting from neuronal stimula...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare survival outcomes in two groups of patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) with initial recurrence detection by cancer antigen 125 (CA-125) elevation or imaging, and underwent secondary cytoreductive surgery (SCS). METHODS A retrospective review of the medical records was performed on 99 recurrent EOC patients who underwent SCS at...

PURPOSE To determine the relative dose rate distribution around the new (125)I brachytherapy source IsoSeed I25.S17plus and report results in a form suitable for clinical use. Results for the new source are also compared to corresponding results for other commercially available (125)I sources of similar design. MATERIAL AND METHODS Monte Carlo simulations were performed using the MCNP5 v.1.6 ...

objective: the label and detection of cells injected into target tissues is an area of focus for researchers. iron oxide nanoparticles can be used to label cells as they have special characteristics. the purpose of this study is to examine the effects of iron oxide nanoparticles on human-derived amniotic membrane stem cell (hamcs) survival and to investigate the magnetic properties of these nan...

Stimuli-responsive multimodality imaging agents have broad potential in medical diagnostics. Herein, we report the development of a new class of branched-bottlebrush polymer dual-modality organic radical contrast agents--ORCAFluors--for combined magnetic resonance and near-infrared fluorescence imaging in vivo. These nitroxide radical-based nanostructures have longitudinal and transverse relaxa...

Monitoring of anti-rheumatic drug delivery in experimental models and in human diseases would undoubtedly be very helpful for both basic research and clinical management of inflammatory diseases. In this study, we have investigated the potential of an emerging hybrid imaging technology-photoacoustic tomography-in noninvasive monitoring of anti-TNF drug delivery. After the contrast agent compose...

Introduction: Early detection and diagnosis of malignant tumors enable more efficacious cancer treatment at an earlier stage and improvement of cancer patients' survival and quality of the life. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful imaging modality for cancer detection and diagnosis. However, current clinically used contrast enhanced MRI is not effective for molecular imaging because ...