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Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

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01.03.2015 | Review

In Vivo Cell Tracking with Bioluminescence Imaging

verfasst von: Jung Eun Kim, Senthilkumar Kalimuthu, Byeong-Cheol Ahn

Erschienen in: Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Ausgabe 1/2015

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Abstract

Molecular imaging is a fast growing biomedical research that allows the visual representation, characterization and quantification of biological processes at the cellular and subcellular levels within intact living organisms. In vivo tracking of cells is an indispensable technology for development and optimization of cell therapy for replacement or renewal of damaged or diseased tissue using transplanted cells, often autologous cells. With outstanding advantages of bioluminescence imaging, the imaging approach is most commonly applied for in vivo monitoring of transplanted stem cells or immune cells in order to assess viability of administered cells with therapeutic efficacy in preclinical small animal models. In this review, a general overview of bioluminescence is provided and recent updates of in vivo cell tracking using the bioluminescence signal are discussed.

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Titel: In Vivo Cell Tracking with Bioluminescence Imaging
verfasst von: Jung Eun Kim
Senthilkumar Kalimuthu
Byeong-Cheol Ahn
Publikationsdatum: 01.03.2015
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in: Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging / Ausgabe 1/2015
Print ISSN: 1869-3474
Elektronische ISSN: 1869-3482
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13139-014-0309-x

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