Radiopharmaceuticals for Cancer Diagnosis
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 June 2018) | Viewed by 23237
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nuclear-based molecular imaging techniques including PET, SPECT, and PET-MRI; image quantification; immunological-based imaging agents for diagnosis of infection and cancer; radiopharmaceuticals for cancer diagnosis and therapy; radiomics
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Interests: radiotracers; drug discovery; drug development; biomarkers; end point; therapeutic effect; drug efficacy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, “Radiopharmaceuticals for Cancer Diagnosis”, will provide a timely update on radiopharmaceuticals for diagnosing and characterizing various cancers using positron emission tomography (PET) or single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). These radiopharmaceuticals are molecular imaging tools that are critical to the diagnosis and staging of cancers, as well as in selecting patients for various therapies and monitoring their outcomes.
Significant advances in radiochemistry and radiopharmaceutical production have allowed for wider adoption of nuclear-based molecular imaging techniques, such as PET and SPECT. Recently, new cancer-targeting diagnostic and “theranostic” radiopharmaceuticals have become commercially available. There are several others in the regulatory approval pipeline.
This Special Issue will specifically explore novel radiopharmaceuticals for the diagnosis or characterization of various cancers, new applications for well-characterized radiopharmaceuticals, new radiochemistry methodologies, and novel strategies in quantitative molecular imaging of radiopharmaceuticals, as applied to cancer.
Submissions contributing to the understanding of the use of radiopharmaceuticals in the diagnosis or characterization of cancer, through basic science, pre-clinical, and clinical studies are cordially invited.
Both original manuscripts and reviews will be considered.
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Franc
Dr. Krishan Kumar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Cancer imaging
- Radiochemistry
- Radiopharmaceuticals
- Positron emission tomography (PET)
- Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
- Theranostics
- Immuno-PET
- Antibody imaging
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