For most cancers, PET is essentially a diagnostic tool. For brain tumors, PET has got its main contribution at the level of the therapeutic management. Indeed, specific reasons render the therapeutic management of brain tumors, especially gliomas, a real challenge. Although some gliomas may ...

Prostate cancer is biologically and clinically a heterogeneous disease and its imaging evaluation will need to be tailored to the specific phases of the disease in a patient-specific, risk-adapted manner. We first present a brief overview of the natural history of prostate cancer before di ...

Morphology-based imaging modalities have replaced classical conventional nuclear medicine modalities for detection of liver or pancreatic lesions. With positron emission tomography and the glucose analog F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), a sensitive and specific modali ...

Testicular cancer is a rare tumor, subdivided into seminomatous and nonseminomatous tumors. Whereas there are no serum tumor markers in the first group, they are present in nonseminomatous tumors, and are also important prognostic factors. Overall, the prognosis for testicular cance ...

Quantification of whole-body FDG PET studies is affected by many physiological and physical factors. Much of the variability in reported standardized uptake value (SUV) data seen in the literature results from the variability in methodology applied among these studies, i.e., due to the use ...

Molecular Imaging has played a prominent role in the assessment of lymphoma for now almost three decades since the introduction of 67Ga-citrate imaging for staging and restaging of both Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL and NHL). Since then other molecular probes have been investig ...

In initial staging of head and neck cancers, the addition of FDG PET to conventional imaging improves the accuracy for cervical nodal metastases. The sensitivity of FDG PET is, however, limited in nodes

Accurate staging is essential to offer the patient the most effective available treatment and the best estimate of prognosis. In non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), surgical resection offers the best chance of cure in the early stages, either alone or in combination with chemo- or radiotherapy ...

Esophageal cancer ranks among the ten most common malignancies in the world and is a frequent cause of cancer-related death. Almost all therapeutic modalities for esophageal cancer are associated with considerable mortality and morbidity. Consequently, there has been growing conc ...

For NSCLC, F-18 FDG-PET scans allow more thorough staging, thus avoiding unnecessary treatments. It reduces radiation treatment volumes because of the avoidance of mediastinal lymph nodes that are PET negative and hence reduces toxicity with the same radiation dose or enables radiati ...

The steroid hormone aldosterone, which is synthesized in the suprarenal glands and secreted in response to a reduction in circulating blood volume, increases water and sodium reabsorption in the kidney (1,2). Although kidney is the major target organ, various other cell types, including d ...

This chapter provides a brief introduction to the principles and practice of magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy. Its goal is to equip researchers in the life sciences with a basic understanding of the capabilities and limitations of magnetic resonance techniques, and a command ...

Recent strides in targeted therapy and regenerative medicine have created a need to identify molecules and metabolic pathways implicated in a disease and its treatment. These molecules and pathways must be discerned at the cellular level to meaningfully reveal the biochemical under ...

We give an overview of the applications and methods of high-resolution anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the study of embryonic and fetal development in animal models. Challenges associated with performing in utero studies are described. Recent in utero images in mouse and in ...

The field of mouse phenotyping with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is rapidly growing, with both MRI physicists and biologists starting to use MRI to identify mouse models of human disease. The purpose of this chapter is to provide details of the animal handling necessary for routine and robu ...

MRI-based perfusion imaging techniques can be classified into those that use exogenously administered contrast agents and those that use an endogenous material that reflects blood flow. This chapter focuses on the technique of arterial spin labeling (ASL), in which endogenous water is ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly becoming an important tool to study anatomy of rodent brains. Compared with histology, it has clear advantages because the entire 3D object can be captured as an image nondestructively. However, low imaging resolution and a small number of a ...

Quantitative magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and imaging (MRI) measurements of energy metabolism (i.e., cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen consumption, CMRo2), blood circulation (i.e., cerebral blood flow, CBF; and cerebral blood volume, CBV), and functional MRI (fMRI) were us ...

Gene expression profiling from microdissected cell populations is a powerful approach to explore molecular processes involved in development and solid tumor biology. In this chapter, we detail robust and validated methods for tissue preparation and isolation of high-quality RNA ...

Monoclonal and polyclonal antisera raised against recombinant proteins are highly sensitive probes that reveal cellular and subcellular protein localization in developing embryos. For Drosophila researchers, the ease of generating such antisera (1) and the number and wides ...