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Breast Cancer Imaging

 

Specific Applications

Phsiological Relevance

Advantages

Complementary Modalities

  • Early disease detection
  • Monitoring of neoadjuvent chemotherapy
  • Disease confirmation

  • Tumor angiogenesis alters functional response of vascular bed
  • Growing tumors exhibit oxygen s upply/demand imbalance

  • Sensitivity to early disease processes
  • Non-ionizing radiation/non-invasive
  • Not restricted by dense breast or prostethics
  • Sensitivity to early disease processes
  • Comfort

  • X-Ray Mammography
  • Ultrasound
  • MRI
  • Thermography

 


Brain Imaging

 

Specific Applications

Phsiological Relevance

Advantages

Complementary Modalities

  • Study of motor sensory functions
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Learning/attention disorders
  • Pharmaceutical applications
  • Drug dependency
  • Psychiatric disorders
  • Epilepsy
  • Stroke
  • Trauma/Intensive Care
  • Senile dementia
  • Parkinson's disease

  • Cortical vascular response to neuroactivation

  • Non-invasive, real-time
  • High temporal resolution
  • High sensitivity to hemodynamics
  • Long term monitoring feasible

  • fMRI/BOLD
  • EEG
  • MEG
  • PET/SPECT

 


Imaging of the Peripheral Vasculature

 

Specific Applications

Phsiological Relevance

Advantages

Complementary Modalities

  • Assessment of response to vasoactive agents
  • Early disease detection and monitoring (e.g. diabetes)
  • Intensive Care/Resuscitation
  • Sports medicine
  • Standardized assessment of health states
  • Aging

  • Microvascular function is often affected early in disease processes
  • Fitness measures correlate to the functional state of the microvasculature
  • Disease affects autonomic regulation

  • Non-invasive
  • Sensitive to microvascular hemodynamics

  • Photoplethysmography
  • Electromyography
  • Dynamometry, ergometry
  • Doppler flow measurements

 


Small Animal Imaging

 

Specific Applications

Phsiological Relevance

Advantages

Complementary Modalities

  • Drug delivery
  • General physiology
  • Reporter gene studies
  • Pain research

  • Functional characterization of animal models

  • Whole body image of small animals feasible
  • Non-invasive
  • Non-ionizing
  • Provides for longitudinal investigations

  • Micro PET
  • Micro MRI
  • Micro CT
  • Bioluminescence
  • Fluorescence