The Chemistry of Imaging Probes

• Main Author: Lorenzo Tei (auth)
• Other Authors: Zsolt Baranyai (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Chemistry; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography; Molecular Imaging Probes; Thermodynamic and Kinetic stability; Positron Emission Tomography; Coordination Chemistry; Ultrasound; Chelating Ligands; Contrast Agents
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Over the past decades, the field of molecular imaging has been rapidly growing involving multiple disciplines such as medicine, biology, chemistry, pharmacology and biomedical engineering. Any molecular imaging procedure requires an imaging probe that is an agent used to visualize, characterize and...