Pathology and Pathological Disorders

Molecular Imaging

Molecular imaging is a type of medical imaging that offers complete depictions of what is happening inside the body at the molecular and cellular level. Wherever other analytical imaging processes such as x-rays, computed tomography and ultrasound, offer images of physical arrangement, molecular imaging permits physicians to perceive how the body is working and to measure its chemical and biological progressions. Molecular imaging comprises the discipline of nuclear medicine, which utilises very slight quantities of radioactive constituents to detect and diagnose disease. Molecular imaging studies help physicians to regulate the magnitude or severity of the disease, comprising whether it has spread to the other part of the disease and to choose the most operational treatment based on the exceptional biologic features of the patient and the molecular properties of other disease.