Wolfhard Semmler • Markus Schwaiger
Editors

2008

Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology

“Molecular imaging (MI) is the in vivo characterization and measurement of biologic processes on the cellular and molecular level. In contradistinction to ‘classical’ diagnostic imaging, it sets forth to probe such molecular abnormalities that are the basis of disease rather than to image the end results of these molecular alterations” (Weissleder and Mahmood 2001).