Author/Authors :
Zhou, Yun Department of Radiology and Radiological Science - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - Baltimore, USA , Lu, Jie Department of Radiology - Xuanwu Hospital - Capital Medical University - Beijing, China , Ran, Chongzhao Harvard Medical School - Boston, USA , Zhang, Jianhua Department of Nuclear Medicine - Peking University First Hospital - Beijing, China
Abstract :
Whole-body PET-CT, simultaneous whole-body PET-MRI,
and multimodal molecular imaging system are the recent
milestone development in nuclear medicine and molecular
imaging. ese high-end molecular imaging scanners with
probes or tracers provide the potential to significantly improve the accuracy in localization and quantification of biological processes at cellular and molecular levels in humans
and other living systems. However, there are many challenges
in image processing and mathematical and statistical modeling to extract physiological and biochemical information
from these multimodal image data. Tremendous eflorts have
been made recently in the evaluation of the advanced imaging
system, extracting physiological and biochemical parameters
from multimodal images, integration of multiparametric images,
and exploring the applications of the advanced quantitative
molecular imaging in clinical nuclear medicine and biology.This
special issue invited a number of papers to update the recent
advances by those investigators in quantitative nuclear medicine
and molecular imaging.
