Table 1.
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) |