Advances in Imaging Step Towards Precision Medicine

This book covers all the advances in the imaging and elaborates on their applications and advantages. It provides step by step overview of the various advanced imaging modalities like molecular imaging, nano imaging, robotic imaging, stem cell imaging, optical imaging, immunoimaging, etc. It describes the applications of various advanced imaging modalities in pathologies like oncology, infection and inflammation and other conditions and provides the available therapeutic options with the help of these modalities. It also covers the detailed aspects of various modalities like ultrasound, CT, MRI, PET-CT, PET-MRI and other modalities. It includes the detailed explanation of various radiotracers, biomarkers and probes with many applications. Chapters cover detailed information at molecular level.

The book is helpful for oncologists, hematologists, surgeons and many other specialists. 

Molecular imaging, instrumentation USG, CT, MR, PET, SPECT, PET-CT, PET-MR & SPECT.- Molecular imaging biomarkers and probes contrast agents.- Radiopahramteuticals.- Optical agents.- Molecular radiopharmateuticals.- Molecular imaging in infection inflammation.- Molecular imaging in oncology.- Functional molecular imaging.- PET-MR.- Nanoimaging.- Amyloid imaging.- Hypoxia imaging.- Translational imaging.- Multiparametric imaging.- Immunoimaging.- Optical imaging.

Dr. Sikandar Shaikh DMRD, DNB, EdiR, MNAMS, FICR graduated from The B R Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. He is the consultant PET-CT radiology at Yashoda Hospitals, Somajiguda, Hyderabad, India. He has many international publications and has delivered more than 110 oral and posters presentations at various international meetings.

Dr. Sikandar is the president elect of ISMRM India Chapter, CCM member from Telangana State Chapter IRIA. He is also Indian ambassador of European Society of Hybrid, Molecular and Translational Imaging (ESHI), research committee member of European Society of Oncoimaging (ESOI), education committee member of World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS), oncoimaging committee member of International Society of Paediatric Radiology (SPR), governing council member of Society of Emergency Radiology (SER), ethics committee member at IIT Hyderabad, associate editor of JMRI (International Journal of MRI). Heis the secretary elect for Indian College of Radiology 2021-2023. He is the reviewer of many international radiology journals, such as Radiographics, Radiology Cardiothoracic Imaging, Radiology Cancer Imaging, European Radiology, American Journal of Roentgenology.