Harnessing the Power of Radionuclides for Optical Imaging: Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging

• Published in: Journal of Nuclear Medicine Vol. 52; no. 12; pp. 2009 - 2018
• Main Authors: Xu, Yingding, Liu, Hongguang, Cheng, Zhen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Society of Nuclear Medicine 01.12.2011
• Subjects: Animals; Biomedical Research; Cancer; Cancer therapies; Energy; Humans; Light; Luminescent Measurements - methods; Medical imaging; Nobel prizes; Optical Phenomena; Physical Phenomena; Physics; Positrons; Radionuclide Imaging - methods; Tumors

Over the past several years, nuclear imaging modalities such as PET and SPECT have received much attention because they have been instrumental not only in preclinical cancer research but also in nuclear medicine. Yet nuclear imaging is limited by high instrumentation cost and subsequently low availa...