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Molecular imaging (MI) is an interdisciplinary science to image specific molecular targets in a living subject that are associated with cancer, which should allow earlier diagnosis and better management of oncology patients. In contrast to anatomical approaches, MI technology is ideally suited for pre-clinical and clinical imaging of cancer biology. Several imaging tools are available with high sensitivity and in a non-invasive manner. For example, with radiolabeled PET tracers, which are injected in non-pharmacological doses, three-dimensional images can be reconstructed by a computer to view the concentration and location(s) of the cancer cells. PET is one of the MI tools most useful in cancer imaging.

Molecular Imaging emerged in the early twenty-first century as a discipline at the intersection of molecular biology and in vivo imaging. It enables the visualization of the cellular function and the follow-up of the molecular process in living organisms without perturbing them. Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine imaging, an important molecular imaging technique which produces a three-dimensional image or picture of functional processes in the body. The theory behind PET is simple enough. Briefly, tracking molecule need to tagged with a positron emitting isotope and followed by scan the body with PET-CT. PET imaging have many advantages. The most important is its sensitivity: a typical PET scanner can detect between 10−11 mol/L to 10−12 mol/L concentrations.

Molecular Imaging emerged in the early twenty-first century as a discipline at the intersection of molecular biology and in vivo imaging. It enables the visualization of the cellular function and the follow-up of the molecular process in living organisms without perturbing them. Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine imaging, an important molecular imaging technique which produces a three-dimensional image or picture of functional processes in the body. The theory behind PET is simple enough. Briefly, tracking molecule need to tagged with a positron emitting isotope and followed by scan the body with PET-CT. PET imaging have many advantages. The most important is its sensitivity: a typical PET scanner can detect between 10−11 mol/L to 10−12 mol/L concentrations.