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Published in final edited form as: J Nucl Med. 2010 Jan 15;51(2):169–172. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.109.066878

Table 1.

A brief summary of in vivo imaging of RNAi. (N/A: not applicable).

Modality	Imaging delivery or effect?	Image tag	Labeling gene or carrier?	Clinical potential	Ref
Fluorescence	both	fluorescent dye, QD, GFP, etc.	both	+	(8–11, 13, 26)
MRI	delivery	iron oxide	carrier	++	(13)
SPECT	delivery	^99mTc and ¹¹¹In	both	+++	(14–16)
PET	delivery	¹⁸F and ⁶⁴Cu	gene	+++	(17, 18)
BLI	effect	luciferases	N/A	None	(17, 20–25)
MRS	effect	chemical shift	N/A	++	(27)