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Nanomaterials for Diagnostic Imaging of the Brain

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Various brain diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, and cancer are major causes of death worldwide. Due to the notion that early diagnosis significantly increases success in treatments, several non-invasive bioimaging modalities such as MRI, CT, and PET are increasingly used to locate pathologic sites in the brain. To further enhance the quality of diagnostic imaging, efforts are incrementally made to couple imaging contrasts of interests to macromolecules or nanoparticles designed to cross over the brain-blood barrier and to bind to pathologic tissue. This chapter will therefore review such important emerging technologies for diagnostic imaging of brain and some preclinical and clinical success, so we can ultimately assist efforts to take diagnosis quality to the next level.

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    Ellen Qin & Hyunjoon Kong

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  1. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, Alabama, USA

    Ho-Wook Jun

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering Soft Biomechanics & Biomaterials Lab, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon (KAIST), Korea (Republic of)

    Jennifer Shin

  4. Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Health Science, Korea University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

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Qin, E., Kong, H. (2016). Nanomaterials for Diagnostic Imaging of the Brain. In: Jo, H., Jun, HW., Shin, J., Lee, S. (eds) Biomedical Engineering: Frontier Research and Converging Technologies. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21813-7_4

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