{"id":93568,"date":"2019-07-13T20:03:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T03:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/blurring-the-lines-between-in-vivo-anatomical-and-molecular-imaging"},"modified":"2019-07-13T20:03:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T03:03:37","slug":"blurring-the-lines-between-in-vivo-anatomical-and-molecular-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/blurring-the-lines-between-in-vivo-anatomical-and-molecular-imaging","title":{"rendered":"Blurring the Lines Between In Vivo Anatomical and Molecular Imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blurring-the-lines-between-in-vivo-anatomical-and-molecular-imaging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientist or not, we\u2019re all familiar with X-ray imaging and perhaps its 3D cousin, computed tomography (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biocompare.com\/BioImaging-Microscopy\/Microscope-and-Cell-Imaging-Systems\/?search=CT\" title=\"CT\" target=\"_blank\">CT<\/a>), as well. These platforms are great for looking at bone and dense tissue\u2014to see if there\u2019s a fracture, or maybe a mass in the lung where it shouldn\u2019t be\u2014whereas molecular resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasonography are the go-to modalities for interrogating softer tissue, like muscle. And for knowing what is happening in the body\u2014as opposed to just where something is\u2014nuclear tracer technologies like positron emission tomography (PET), and to a lesser extent its cousin single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), are the way to go.<\/p>\n<p>These self-same modalities can be found in more diminutive instrumentation for pre-clinical imaging\u2014often equipped with heated beds or chambers, anesthesia and oxygen supplies, and other modifications\u2014specifically designed for small animals. If you also consider instruments capable of optical modalities of fluorescence, bioluminescence and their derivatives\u2014which generally don\u2019t easily translate to the clinic\u2014you find yourself awash in possibilities for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biocompare.com\/pfu\/10242895\/soids\/2254293\/Microscopes_and_Cell_Imaging_Systems\/In_Vivo_Imaging_System\" title=\"in vivo imaging\" target=\"_blank\">in vivo imaging<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientist or not, we\u2019re all familiar with X-ray imaging and perhaps its 3D cousin, computed tomography (CT), as well. These platforms are great for looking at bone and dense tissue\u2014to see if there\u2019s a fracture, or maybe a mass in the lung where it shouldn\u2019t be\u2014whereas molecular resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasonography are the go-to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}