FIG. 4.
Nuclear medicine imaging of tissue engineering applications to evaluate wound healing. (A) Evaluation of osteogenic metabolism within a bone defect model using PET/CT imaging to assess healing following treatment with poly(lactic-co-glycolic) acid (PLGA) scaffolds seeded with bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells. Reprinted with permission from Lin et al.32 (B) PET/CT imaging of angiogenesis induced in a hindlimb ischemia model with αvb3 targeted dendritic nanoprobes. Reprinted with permission from van de Almutairi et al.36 Color images available online at www.liebertpub.com/teb