Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance

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MAGNETIC RESONANCE MOLECULAR IMAGING TECHNIQUES

LEI Hao   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics & Mathematics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
  • Received:2003-02-20 Revised:2003-03-15 Published:2003-06-05 Online:2003-06-05
  • Supported by:

    中国科学院“引进海外杰出人才”计划; 国家自然科学基金重点项目(10234070).

Abstract:

Magnetic resonance molecular imaging, which uses magnetic resonance imaging as a noninvasive tool to study in vivo cellular molecular events involved
in normal and pathologic processes, has recently become a hot topic in the research field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Still in its early stage, the research on magnetic resonance molecular imaging has been growing rapidly due to the great values and potentials of the techniques in both clinical medicine and basic biomedical investigations. In this paper, the recent developments of magnetic resonance molecular imaging are reviewed. The methodological aspects of several types of  commonly used magnetic resonance molecular imaging techniques and the molecular probes used in the techniques are briefly introduced.

Key words: NMR, magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, molecular imaging, molecular probe

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