Molecular Imaging of Steroid-Induced Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head through iRGD-Targeted Microbubbles

• Main Authors: Ping Zhao (Author), Shuai Zhao (Author), Jiaqi Zhang (Author), Manlin Lai (Author), Litao Sun (Author), Fei Yan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) is a disease that is commonly seen in the clinic, but its detection rate remains limited, especially at the early stage. We developed an ultrasound molecular imaging (UMI) approach for early diagnosis of ONFH by detecting the expression of integrin α<sub&g...