Patients & Advocates
When is MI used?
Molecular imaging offers unique insights that allow a more personalized approach to evaluation and management of heart disease, cancer, and brain disorders. While molecular imaging is actively practiced in clinical settings, research in this area holds the promise of far more effective, personally designed therapies.
Clinical Uses (and continuing research)
- Heart Disease
- Inadequate blood flow
- Heart failure
- Left ventricular remodeling
- Thrombosis
- Transplant rejection
- Cancer
- Detection and Diagnosis
- Patient stratification
- Staging—extent and location
- Assessing potential therapeutic targets
- Monitoring therapy
- Evaluating prognosis
- Brain Disorders
- Tumors
- Dementias (Alzheimer's disease and others)
- Seizure disorders
Research Areas
- Heart Disease
- Atherosclerosis
- Angiogenesis
- Arrhythmic substrates
- Cancer
- Angiogenesis
- Hypoxia
- Cell proliferation
- Brain Disorders
- Movement disorders
- Addiction
- Psychiatric disorders
- Drug Discovery and Development
- Clinical trial endpoint
- Biomarker
