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Biomarker Disease / Medical condition Imaging Technique Investigators Comments Disease Category

18 F-fluorodeoxy-glucose

Pancreatic carcinoma

PET

Fischman AJ

 

Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal

99mTc labeled monoclonal antibody Colorectal carcinoma SPECT Fischman AJ Phase III clinical trial with HumaSPECT-Tc

Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal
Abnormal lymphatic uptake of tracer Lymphatic extension of pelvic malignancy (gynecological oncology) MRI Hahn PF
Harisinghani M
Mueller PR
Saini S
Weissleder R

MR Lymphangio-graphy using ultrasmall superpara-magnetic iron oxide Oncology / Neoplasm Inflammatory
ACCD activation (anterior cingulate cortex division) Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) fMRI
PET
Bush G
Fischman A
Rosen B

 
Neurological
Acinar cell receptor binding Pancreatic function MRI Brady TJ Shen TT Weissleder R Secretin monocrystalline iron oxide nanoparticles (MION)

Endocrine Metabolic Gastrointestinal
Acute bronchial dilatation Wall thickening Respiratory syncytial virus CT McLoud TC
Shepard J


 
Infectious disease
Altered vascular and tissue permeability Asphyxia CT Gonzalez RG
Grant E

 
Neurological
Anatomic disruption of arterial wall Aortic dissection US
CT
MRI
Angiography

Gonzalez R
Waltman A

 
Cardiology / Vascular
Anatomic disruption of arterial wall Carotid dissection US CT / CTA MRI / MRA Angiography Gonzalez R
Waltman A


 
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Anatomic disruption of arterial wall Intracranial arterial dissection CTA MRA Angiography Gonzalez R
Lev MH
Waltman A

 
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Aneurysmal wall thickness Inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm (IAAA) CT Brady T
Saini S
Waltman A

 
Inflammatory Cardiology / Vascular
Angiogenesis Breast neoplasm US O'Neill MJ Microbubble contrast agents

Oncology / Neoplasm
Anterior cingulate size and thickness Alzheimer's disease MRI Hyman B Can distinguish normal from mild AD with 93% accuracy

Neurological Metabolic
Anti-tumor antibody Neoplasm / primary and secondary Optical Ntziachristos V Weissleder R

Targeted Fluorochromes Oncology / Neoplasm
Apoptosis Caspase-1 Caspase-3 Neoplasm / primary and secondary Optical Ntziachristos V Weissleder R

Active, stable Fluorochromes Oncology / Neoplasm
Apoptosis Phosphatidylserine Neoplasm / primary and secondary Optical Ntziachristos V Weissleder R

Active, stable Fluorochromes Oncology / Neoplasm
Apparent diffusion constant (ADC) Stroke Diffusion weighted imaging fMRI MRI (morphometry) Kennedy D
Lo E
Rosen B

 
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Apparent diffusion constant (ADC) Neurodegenerative disorders fMRI MRI / diffusion weighted imaging Jenkins BG
Kennedy D
Rosas HD
Rosen B

 
Neurological
Arterial calcification Atherosclerosis / central CT Brady T
 
Cardiology / Vascular Metabolic
Arterial calcification Arteriosclerosis / peripheral CT Brady T
 
Cardiology / Vascular Metabolic
Arterial calcification Coronary artery disease CT Brady T
 
Cardiology / Vascular Metabolic
Articular cartilage and subchondral bone thickness Cartilage abnormalities MRI Palmer WE MR using fat-suppressed SPGR images

Musculoskeletal
Articular cartilage thickness Arthritis / inflammatory Plain radiographs MRI Palmer W
Rosenthal DI


 
Musculoskeletal Inflammatory
Articular cartilage thickness Arthritis / rheumatoid Plain radiographs MRI Palmer W Rosenthal DI

 
Musculoskeletal Inflammatory
Articular cartilage thickness Osteoarthritis Plain radiographs MRI Palmer W Rosenthal DI

 
Musculoskeletal Inflammatory
Articular cartilage volume Joint injury / hip and knee Co-planar MRI Palmer WE
Rosenberg AE
Rosenthal DI

MR using fat-saturated 3D spoiled gradient-echo images (SPGR)

Musculoskeletal
Articular labrum fraying SLAP lesions of the shoulder MR arthrography Bencardino JT
Palmer WE

 
Musculoskeletal
Atherosclerotic plaque temperature Vulnerable plaque Thermography Brady T
Lev M
Waltman A

 
Neurological Cardiology/ Vascular Inflammatory
Basal ganglia / putamen volume

Huntington's disease MRI Harris G  
Neurological
Bicep anchor avulsion SLAP lesions of the shoulder MR arthrography Bencardino JT
Palmer WE

 
Musculoskeletal
Biliary ductal dilatation Biliary obstruction US CT MRI Hahn P
Mueller P

 
Gastrointestinal
Biliary ductal dilatation Biliary parasitic disease US CT MRI Hahn P
Mueller P
O'Neill MJ

 
Gastrointestinal Infectious disease
Biliary ductal dilatation Cholangitis MRI Prasad S
Sahani D

MR cholangio-pancreatography Gastrointestinal Infectious disease Inflammatory

Biliary ductal dilatation Choledo-cholithiasis US CT MRI Hahn PF
O'Neill MJ
Mueller P

 
Endocrine Inflammatory Gastrointestinal Metabolic

Blood oxygen level depletion Neurodegenerative disorders fMRI MRI / diffusion weighted imaging Jenkins BG
Kennedy D
Rosas HD
Rosen B

 
Neurological
Blood oxygen level depletion (BOLD)

Dementia fMRI Rosen B  
Neurological
Blood-tumor barrier permeability (BTP) Glioma MRI fMRI Gonzalez RG
Kwong KK
Sorensen AG
Weissleder R

 
Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Body fat composition AIDS wasting syndrome CT Rosenthal DI  
Endocrine Metabolic Musculoskeletal Infectious disease Gastrointestinal

Body fat composition Obesity Quantitative CT MRI US Rosenthal DI  
Endocrine Metabolic Musculoskeletal Gastrointestinal

Bone fill score and penetration depth Bone fracture / healing and distraction osteogenesis wounds US O'Neill MJ Animal study Bone healing assessed by increased fill and decreased penetration depth

Musculoskeletal Metabolic
Bone mineral density Osteopenia Plain radiographs Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) CT

Rosenthal DI Must establish bone strength as well as density Endocrine Metabolic Musculoskeletal
Bone mineral density Osteoporosis Plain radiographs Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) CT

Rosenthal DI Must establish bone strength as well as density Endocrine Metabolic Musculoskeletal
Bowel wall differentiation Crohn's disease MR enteroclysis Hahn P Use of experimental oral contrast Kaolin, locus bean gum, methylcellulose + Barium

Gastrointestinal Inflammatory
Bowel wall thickening Inflammatory bowl disease (IBD)

MRI Hahn P Tissue FISP pulse sequence Gastrointestinal Inflammatory
Cartilage thickness Osteoarthritis Intra-articular Optical coherence topography

Palmer WE  
Musculoskeletal Inflammatory
Cathepsin D Neoplasm / primary and secondary Optical Ntziachristos V Weissleder R

Active, stable Fluorochromes Oncology / Neoplasm
Caudate lobe enlargement Cirrhosis MRI CT Hahn PF Sahani D Discrimination of alcohol from virus-induced cirrhosis

Gastrointestinal Infectious disease Inflammatory
Cerebral blood flow Alzheimer's disease Perfusion weighted imaging / Arterial spin labeling

Hoge R  
Neurological Metabolic
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) Alzheimer's disease Optical Boas D Dunn A Combining of multi-wavelength and laser speckle contrast imaging

Neurological Metabolic
Cerebral blood flow (CBF ) Brain function MRI fMRI PET Belliveau
Kwong K
Rosen BR

Response to stimuli Neurological Metabolic
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) Brain development Optical Imaging Boas D
Dunn A
Diffuse optical imaging (DOI)

Neurological Metabolic
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) CNS neoplasm / primary and secondary, presence and viability

Optical Boas D
Dunn A
Diffuse optical imagine (DOI) Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) Dementia MRI / arterial spin labeling

Hoge R  
Neurological
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) Epilepsy MRI / arterial spin labeling

Hoge R
Kwong KK
 
Neurological
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) Migraine Laser speckle contrast imaging Diffuse optical topography

Boas D
Bolay
Dunn A
 
Neurological
Cerebral Blood flow (CBF) Stroke Optical imaging Boas D
Dunn A
Lo E


 
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) Schizophrenia PET Alpert N
Fischman A
Heckers S
Rauch SL
Schaefer P

Regional activation during cognitive paradigms Neurological
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) Parkinson’s disease MRI / Arterial spin labeling

Hoge R  
Neurological
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) Glioma MRI
fMRI
Gonzalez RG
Sorensen AG
Rosen B

 
Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) Migraine Diffusion / perfusion weighted imaging fMRI Grant E
Schaefer P
Sorensen AG
Rosen BR

 
Neurological
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) Alzheimer's disease SPECT fMRI Harris G
Gonzalez RG
Sorensen AG

 
Neurological Metabolic
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) Stroke MRI (combined Arterial spin labeling and Dynamic susceptibility contrast) CAPTIVE

Harris G
Hoge R
Ostergaard L
Rosen B
Sorensen AG
Wald LL

MTT helps to stratify patients in clinical trials MR perfusion territory imaging Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) Stroke / ischemic CAPTIVE MRI Bogdanov A
Jenkins B
Kwong K
Weissleder R

 
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Cerebral blood volume (CBV) Brain function / drugs of abuse fMRI Jenkins B
Kosofsky B
Mandeville JB
Rosen B

Response to stimuli Neurological Metabolic
Cerebral blood volume (CBV) Stroke MRI (combined Arterial spin labeling and Dynamic susceptibility contrast) CAPTIVE Harris G
Hoge R
Ostergaard L
Rosen B
Sorensen AG
Wald LL

MTT helps to stratify patients in clinical trials MR perfusion territory imaging Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Cerebral blood volume (CBV) Glioma MRI fMRI Gonzalez RG
Sorensen AG
Rosen B

 
Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Cerebral blood volume (CBV) Alzheimer's disease SPECT fMRI Harris G
Gonzalez RG
Sorensen AG

 
Neurological Metabolic
Cerebral blood volume (CBV) Parkinson’s disease MRI / Arterial spin labeling Hoge R
 
Neurological
Cerebral blood volume (CBV) Migraine Diffusion / perfusion weighted imaging fMRI Grant E
Schaefer P
Sorensen AG
Rosen BR

 
Neurological
Change in local tissue density or contrast enhancement Neoplasm / primary and secondary CT MRI Palmer WE Rosenthal DI Mutlicenter Trail with 367 patients - CT and MRI equally reliable for diagnosis

Musculoskeletal Oncology / Neoplasm
Chemotactic peptide uptake Pancreatitis SPECT Fischman AJ Via 99mTc labeled peptide analog Gastrointestinal Inflammatory Metabolic Infectious disease Endocrine

Choline CNS AIDS / neuroinflammation neurodegeneration MRS Gonzalez R
Schaefer P
Schwamm LH

 
Neurological
Choline Hepatic encephalopathy MRS Grant E
Jenkins BG
Schaefer P

 
Neurological
Choline CNS neoplasm / primary and secondary MRS Gonzalez R
Husiman TA
Sorensen AG

Metabolism, tumor viability and response to therapy Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Choline / sodium (NA) ratio Creatine / sodium (NA) ratio

Multiple sclerosis MRS Jenkins B
Gonzalez RG

 
Neurological Inflammatory
Choline : creatine ratio Huntington's disease MRS Jenkins BG
Rosen B

 
Neurological
CMRO2 Stroke fMRI Diffuse optical topography (Near infrared spectroscopy) Boas D
Mandeville JB
Strangman G

NIRS agrees well with fMRI, useful in longitudinal studies Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Comparative brainstem analysis Multiple sclerosis MRI Jenkins B
Rosen BR
Stufflebeam SM

 
Neurological Inflammatory
Contrast enhanced tissue characterization Pancreatic mass MRI cholangio -pancreatography Prasad S
Sahani D
Saini S

 
Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal
Cortical thickness Schizophrenia MRI (morphometry) Fischl B
Harris G
Kennedy D
Kuperberg G

 
Neurological
Cortical activation during provoked conditions Obsessive compulsive disorder fMRI PET SPECT Fischman A
Rauch SL
Rosen BR


 
Neurological
Cortical activation during sensorimotor tasks

Stroke / recovery fMRI Schaechter J Rosen BR
 
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Cortical activity Pain fMRI PET SPECT MEG Fischman A
Halgren E
Rosen B
Sorensen AG
Stuffelbeam SM

 
Neurological Musculoskeletal
Cortical dysplasia Epilepsy MRI / MEG fMRI Dale A
Grant E
Mandeville J
Rosen B
Stufflebeam SM
Wald LL

 
Neurological
Cortical spreading depression (CSD) Migraine Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) fMRI Hadjikhani N
Rosen BR
Sorensen AG

Signal changes measured during visual aura Neurological
Cortical surface disruption Bone fracture Plain radiographs Palmer W Rosenthal DI

 
Musculoskeletal
Cortical thickness Huntington's disease fMRI MRI morphometry Dale A
Fischl B
Harris G
Kennedy D
Rosas D

 
Neurological
Cortical thickness Multiple sclerosis fMRI
MRI
morphometry

Fischl B
Kuperberg G

 
Neurological Inflammatory
Cortical thickness Obsessive compulsive disorder

MRI (morphometry) Kennedy D  
Neurological
Cortical thickness and asymmetry Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

MRI (morphometry) Kennedy D  
Neurological
Cortical thickness, volume and location Brain development / -anencephaly -microcephaly -holoprosencephaly

MRI morphometry fMRI Caviness VS
Dale A
Fischl B
Kennedy D

 
Neurological
Cyst composition / tissue characterization Intra-abdominal abscess US CT MRI Mueller P  
Gastrointestinal Genitourinary Infectious disease

Cyst composition / tissue characterization Arthritis / septic PET Palmer W Rosenthal DI  
Infectious disease Musculoskeletal Inflammatory

Cyst composition / tissue characterization Fibrocystic change US
CT
MRI

Kopans DB  
Oncology / Neoplasm
Cyst composition / tissue characterization Ganglion cyst US
CT
MRI

Rosenthal DI  
Musculoskeletal Inflammatory
Cyst composition / tissue characterization Renal neoplasm / primary and secondary US
CT
MRI

Mueller PR  
Oncology / Neoplasm Genitourinary
Cyst composition / tissue characterization Synovial cell sarcoma US
CT
MRI

Rosenthal DI  
Oncology / Neoplasm Musculoskeletal
Cyst composition / tissue characterization Soft tissue inflammation Simple renal cysts US
CT
MRI

Mueller PR  
Oncology / Neoplasm Genitourinary
Cystic architecture / tissue characterization Synovial cyst US
CT
MRI

Palmer W Rosenthal DI  
Musculoskeletal
Cystic nodal metastases Thyroid carcinoma US Hahn PF
Harisinghani M
Mueller PR
O'Neill MJ

 
Oncology / Neoplasm Endocrine
Decreased N-acetylaspartate (NAA) Multiple sclerosis MRS Jenkins B Gonzalez RG


 
Neurological Inflammatory
Decreased regional blood flow Renal disease PET Alpert NM Fischman AJ

 
Metabolic Endocrine
Degree of circumferential vessel involvement Pancreatic adrenal carcinoma Multidetector CT angiography (MDCT) / CTA Boland GW
Mueller PR
Saini S

 
Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal
Diffuse cerebral edema with thalamic +/- cerebellar hypo-attenuation

Cerebral malaria CT Gonzalez RG  
Neurological Infectious disease
Diffuse cerebral edema with thalamic +/- cerebellar hypo-attenuation Infectious disease / cerebral malaria CT Gonzalez RG
 
Neurological Infectious disease
Directed molecular probes HIV MRI
PET
Optical

Weissleder R


 
Infectious disease
Directed molecular probes Huntington's disease MRI
PET
Optical

Fischman A Weissleder R   Neurological
Directed molecular probes Neoplasm / primary and secondary MRI
PET
Optical

Fischman AJ Hunter GJ Weissleder R   Oncology / Neoplasm
Directed molecular probes Parkinson’s disease PET
Optical

Weissleder R   Neurological
Directed molecular probes Alzheimer's disease PET SPECT Optical Fischman A Weissleder R Animal modeling Optical with exogenous contrast agents

Neurological Metabolic
Directed molecular probes for beta cell mass Diabetes MRI Moore A
Bogdanov AJ
Weissleder R

 
Metabolic Endocrine
Distribution and leakage of intra-articular administered contrast media

Rotator cuff injury MR arthrography Palmer WE Distinguishes full from partial thickness tears Musculoskeletal
Dopa decarboxylase activity

Dyskinesia (PNKD) PET Fischman A  
Neurological Musculoskeletal
Dopamine binding potential Parkinson’s disease SPECT (using I-123 altropane) Fischman A
Halpern E
Sahani D

 
Neurological
Dopamine transporter (DAT) density Parkinson’s disease SPECT (using I-123 altropane) Fischman A
Halpern E
Sahani D

 
Neurological
Dopamine transporter density Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

SPECT Fischman A Rauch SL  
Neurological
Dopaminergic neurotransmitter activity Parkinson’s disease fMRI PET Fishman A
Livni E
Rosen B

Pet using 11C-CRT Neurological
Ductal dilatation Cholangitis MRI Prasad S Sahani D MR cholangio- pancreatography Gastrointestinal Infectious disease Inflammatory

Ductal irregularity or obstruction Pancreatitis MRI Prasad S Sahani D Saini S Visualized by MR cholanio-pancreatography (MRCP)

Gastrointestinal Inflammatory Metabolic Infectious disease Endocrine
Early diffusion changes Asphyxia Diffusion weighted imaging Grant E
Schaefer P
Sorensen AG

 
Neurological
Edema / change in signal intensity and apparent diffusion constant

Trauma MRI Diffusion weighted imaging Palmer W Rosenthal DI  
Musculoskeletal Inflammatory
Embolism volume Pulmonary embolism MRI Weissleder R Via monocrystalline iron oxide nanoparticles (MION)

Cardiology / Vascular
Entorhinal cortex Alzheimer's disease MRI Hyman B Can distinguish normal from mild AD with 93% accuracy

Neurological Metabolic
Enzymatic activity Neoplasm / primary and secondary

Optical Weissleder R Rodent model Oncology / Neoplasm
Fibrillations Osteoarthritis Intra-articular Optical coherence topography

Palmer WE  
Musculoskeletal Inflammatory
Fibrosis Osteoarthritis Intra-articular Optical coherence topography

Palmer WE  
Musculoskeletal Inflammatory
Fibrous cap thickness Vulnerable plaque Optical coherence topography Weissleder R  
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular Inflammatory

Flow heterogeneity (FH) Stroke MRI (combined Arterial spin labeling and Dynamic susceptibility contrast) CAPTIVE

Harris G
Hoge R
Ostergaard L
Rosen B
Sorensen AG
Wald LL

MTT helps to stratify patients in clinical trials MR perfusion territory imaging Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Fluorescent proteins / exogenous Neoplasm / primary and secondary Macroscopic fluorescence reflective imagine (FRI) Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT)

Ntziachristos V Weissleder R Green fluorescence proteins (GFPs) Ds Red Hc Red Oncology / Neoplasm
Focal atrophy Brain injury / toxicity and trauma MRI Caviness VS
Kennedy D


 
Neurological
Focal brain uptake CNS AIDS / fungal and opportunistic infections

PET SPECT Fischman A  
Neurological
Folate receptor Neoplasm / primary and secondary Optical Ntziachristos V Weissleder R

Targeted Fluorochromes Oncology / Neoplasm
Frontal language area Autism MRI Caviness VS
Harris G
Kennedy D

Reversal of morphometric asymmetry in frontal language area

Neurological
Frontal language area Autism fMRI Harris G Abnormal fMRI activation of frontal language areas during semantic language tasks

Neurological
Gallbladder wall thickening Cholecystitis US
CT
MRI
Hahn P
Mueller P
O'Neill MJ
 
Endocrine Inflammatory Infectious disease Gastrointestinal

Gallstones Cholelithiasis US
CT
MRI
Hahn P
Mueller P
O'Neill MJ
 
Endocrine Inflammatory Gastrointestinal Metabolic

Gallstones Cholecystitis US
CT
MRI
Hahn P
Mueller P
O'Neill MJ
 
Endocrine Inflammatory Infectious disease Gastrointestinal

Glucose Hepatic encephalopathy MRS Grant E
Jenkins BG
Schaefer P

 
Neurological
Glucose metabolism Breast neoplasm PET Alpert NM
Choi NC
Fischman AJ

 
Oncology / Neoplasm
Glucose metabolism Head and neck neoplasm / primary and secondary PET Alpert N
Choi N
Fischman A

Non-specific marker with wide variety of applications Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Glucose metabolism Hepatic neoplasm / primary and secondary PET Fischman AJ Non-specific marker with wide variety of applications

Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal
Glucose metabolism Lung neoplasm / non small cell carcinoma PET Choi NC
Fischman AJ
Weissleder R
Pilot trial in NSCLC showed good inverse correlation between MR post radiation and outcomes

Oncology / Neoplasm
Glucose metabolism Osseous neoplasm / primary and secondary

PET Fischman AJ  
Oncology / Neoplasm Musculoskeletal
Glucose metabolism Ovarian neoplasm / presence and viability PET Fischman AJ Non-specific marker with wide variety of applications

Oncology / Neoplasm Genitourinary
Glucose metabolism Pulmonary neoplasm / presence and viability PET Fischman AJ Non-specific marker with wide variety of applications

Oncology / Neoplasm
Glucose metabolism Renal neoplasm / primary and secondary PET Fischman AJ  
Oncology / Neoplasm Genitourinary

Glucose metabolism Soft tissue neoplasm / primary and secondary PET Fischman AJ Non-specific marker with wide variety of applications

Oncology / Neoplasm Musculoskeletal
Glucose metabolism CNS neoplasm / primary and secondary, presence and viability PET Alpert N
Choi N
Fischman A
Kennedy D
Rosen B

Non-specific marker with wide variety of applications Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Glucose transporter Neoplasm / primary and secondary Optical Ntziachristos V
Weissleder R

Targeted Fluorochromes Oncology / Neoplasm
Glucose uptake Glioma PET Fischman A
Kennedy D
Rosen B

 
Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Ground-glass appearance Respiratory syncytial virus CT McLoud TC
Shepard J


 
Infectious disease
Hippocampal size Alzheimer's disease MRI Quantitative volumetric morphometry Dale A
Hyman B
Fischl B
Kennedy D
Accurately indicates absence of disease progression in therapeutic trials - allows markedly reduced subject numbers

Neurological Metabolic
Hippuran clearance Renal disease PET Alpert NM Fischman AJ

 
Metabolic Endocrine
Human transferrin receptor Neoplasm / primary and secondary MRI Weissleder R Receptor binding probe linking transferrin and monocrystalline ir

on oxide (Tf-MION)
Oncology / Neoplasm
Hyperperfusion Epilepsy MRI / arterial spin labeling Hoge R
Kwong KK

 
Neurological
Increased abdominal visceral fat associated with decreased bone mineral density AIDS wasting syndrome / lipodystrophy Quantitative CT Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) Rosenthal DI  
Endocrine Metabolic Musculoskeletal Infectious disease Gastrointestinal

Increased Cerebral blood volume (CBV) HIV fMRI Gonzalez RG Hunter G Cerebral injury related to HIV infection

Infectious disease
Increased pulmonary interstitial markings Allergic drug reaction CT McLoud TC
Shepard J

 
Endocrine Metabolic Inflammatory

Increased pulmonary interstitial markings

Connective tissue disorders CT McLoud TC
Shepard J

 
Inflammatory
Increased pulmonary interstitial markings Interstitial pulmonary edema CT McLoud TC
Shepard J

 
Inflammatory Cardiology / Vascular Infectious Disease
Increased pulmonary interstitial markings Lymphangio- carcinomatosis CT McLoud TC
Mueller PR
Shepard J
Weissleder R

 
Oncology / Neoplasm
Increased pulmonary interstitial markings Pulmonary infection CT McLoud TC
Shepard J


 
Infectious disease
Increased synovial glucose metabolism Arthritis / septic MRI Palmer W
Rosenthal DI

 
Infectious disease Musculoskeletal Inflammatory

Increased synovial glucose metabolism Arthritis / inflammatory PET Fischman AJ
Palmer W
Rosenthal DI

 
Musculoskeletal Inflammatory
Increased synovial glucose metabolism Pigmented villonodular synovitis PET Fischman AJ
Palmer W
Rosenthal DI

 
Inflammatory Musculoskeletal
Increasing periosteal and endosteal enhancement Osteoarticular allograft imaging MRI Palmer WE Rosenthal DI 3-4 months post allograft / represents vascular ingrowth and early skeletal repair

Musculoskeletal
Infiltration of tunica muscularis Presence of positive nodes Rectal carcinoma / advanced staging MRI Multidetector CT angiography (MDCT) US Hahn P
Saini S
O'Neill MJ
Mueller P

 
Gastrointestinal Oncology / Neoplasm
Inflammation Crohn's disease MR enteroclysis Hahn P Use of experimental oral contrast Kaolin, locus bean gum, methylcellulose + Barium

Gastrointestinal Inflammatory
Intraluminal hemorrhage Gastrointestinal bleeding

SPECT Fischman AJ  
Gastrointestinal
Intramyocellular lipid levels HIV lipodystrophy syndrome
Diabetes (Type II)
Obesity

Proton MR spectroscopy
Torriani M Endocrine
Infectious disease
Metabolic
Musculoskeletal
Intravascular thrombus Acute myocardial infarction

MRI Brady T  
Cardiology / Vascular
Intravascular thrombus Arterial embolism CT
MRI
Angiography

Waltman A
 
Cardiology / Vascular
Intravascular thrombus Deep venous thrombosis CT
MRI
Angiography

O’Neill MJ Waltman A  
Cardiology / Vascular
Intravascular thrombus Portal vein thrombosis US
CT
MRI
Angiography

Hahn P
Mueller P
O’Neill MJ
Waltman A

 
Cardiology / Vascular Gastrointestinal
Intravascular thrombus Pulmonary embolism

CT McLoud T
 
Cardiology / Vascular
Intravascular thrombus Stroke CT / CTA MRI / MRA Angiography Caviness VS
Gonzalez RG
Schaefer P
Sorensen AG

 
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Ischemic brain tissue Stroke / ischemic Diffusion / perfusion weighted imaging MRI CT perfusion CTA Gonzalez R
Harris G
Sorensen AG

 
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Joint space narrowing Arthritis Plain radiographs Palmer W
Rosenthal DI

 
Musculoskeletal Inflammatory
Lactate Hepatic encephalopathy MRS Grant E
Jenkins BG
Schaefer P

 
Neurological
Lactate Huntington's disease MRS Jenkins BG
Rosen B

 
Neurological
Lactate CNS neoplasm / primary and secondary MRS Gonzalez R
Husiman TA
Sorensen AG

Metabolism, tumor viability and response to therapy Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Lactate : choline ratio Asphyxia MRS Jenkins B


 
Neurological
Lesion detection Hepatic neoplasm / primary and secondary MRI Hahn PF
Harisinghani M
Saini S
Weissleder R

Increased SNR and CNR with liver specific contrast agent GD-BOPTA and mangafodipir

Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal
Lesion volume Adenopathy, lymphoma and metastatic disease US
CT
MRI
Harisinghani M
Mueller PR
O’Neill MJ
Saini S

Anatomic marker of disease presence Oncology / Neoplasm Genitourinary
Lesion volume CNS neoplasm / primary and secondary CT
MRI
morphometry
Gonzalez R
Harris G
Kennedy D
Lev
Schaefer P
Sorensen AG

Anatomic marker of disease presence Response to therapy Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Lesion volume Head and neck neoplasm / primary and secondary CT
MRI
Gonzalez R
Lev MH
Schaefer P
Schwamm
Sorensen AG

Anatomic marker of disease presence Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Lesion volume Hepatic neoplasm / primary and secondary US
CT
MRI
Harris G
Mueller PR
O’Neill MJ
Saini S

Anatomic marker of disease presence Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal
Lesion volume Lung neoplasm / primary and secondary CT
MRI
Hunter GJ Anatomic marker of disease presence

Oncology / Neoplasm
Lesion volume Renal neoplasm / primary and secondary US
CT
MRI
Mueller PR
O’Neill MJ
Saini S

Anatomic marker of disease presence Oncology / Neoplasm Genitourinary
Leukocyte accumulation Abscess SPECT Fischman AJ Tc-99m HMPAO improvement over Tl-201 and Ga-67 Neurological Inflammatory Musculoskeletal Genitourinary Infectious disease Gastrointestinal

Leukocyte accumulation Osteomyelitis Nuclear medicine Fischman AJ Radiolabled IL-8 accumulation Infectious disease Musculoskeletal

Leukocyte accumulation Soft tissue infection Nuclear medicine Fischman AJ  
Infectious disease Musculoskeletal Inflammatory

Ligament tears Ankle injury MR arthrography Palmer WE Predicts sensitivity for ankle impingement syndromes

Musculoskeletal
Liver tissue characterization Cholangio-carcinoma MRI Hahn PF
Halpern EF
Sahani D

Using combined ferrumoxide / Gd-DPTA Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal
Liver tissue characterization Hepatic cysts MRI
US
Hahn PF
Harisinghani M
Mueller PR
O'Neill MJ
Weissleder R

Using ultrasmall superpara-magnetic iron oxide, mangafodipir trisodium

Gastrointestinal
Liver tissue characterization Hepatic focal nodular hyperplasia MRI Hahn PF
Halpern EF
Sahani D

Using combined ferrumoxide / Gd-DPTA

Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal Endocrine
Liver tissue characterization Hepatic focal nodular hyperplasia MRI Hahn PF
Harisinghani M
Mueller PR
Weissleder R

Using ultrasmall superpara-magnetic iron oxide, mangafodipir trisodium

Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal Endocrine
Liver tissue characterization Hepatic hemangioma MRI
US
Hahn PF
Harisinghani M
Mueller PF
O'Neill MJ
Saini S
Weissleder R

Using ultrasmall superpara-magnetic iron oxide OR Gd-based chelates Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal
Liver tissue characterization Hepatobiliary disorders MRI Hahn P
Harisinghani M
Mueller P
Weissleder R

Using ultrasmall superpara-magnetic iron oxide, mangafodipir trisodium

Gastrointestinal
Liver tissue characterization Hepatocellular carcinoma MRI Hahn P
Harisinghani M
Mueller P
Weissleder R

Using ultrasmall superpara-magnetic iron oxide, mangafodipir trisodium

Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal
Liver tissue characterization Hepatocellular carcinoma MRI Hahn PF
Halpern EF
Harisinghani M
Sahani D

Using combined ferrumoxide / Gd-DPTA Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal
Local uptake of specific tumor avid radiotracers Neoplasm / primary and secondary Nuclear medicine Fischman AJ  
Musculoskeletal Oncology / Neoplasm

Lumen vascular diameter Arteriosclerosis / peripheral CTA
MRA
Angiography
Gonzalez R
Hunter G
Lev M
Waltman A

 
Cardiology / Vascular Metabolic
Macrophage content Vulnerable plaque Optical coherence topography Weissleder R  
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular Inflammatory

Marrow edema Bone fracture MRI -T1 Diffusion weighted imaging / Apparent diffusion constant Palmer WE Impact fractures demonstrate prominent edema, distraction fractures exhibit minimal edema

Musculoskeletal
Matrix metalloproteinase-2 MMP-9 MMP-13 Neoplasm / primary and secondary Optical Ntziachristos V Weissleder R

Active, stable Fluorochromes Oncology / Neoplasm
Mean transit time (MTT) Alzheimer's disease SPECT
fMRI
Harris G
Gonzalez RG
Sorensen AG

 
Neurological Metabolic
Mean transit time (MTT) Migraine Diffusion / perfusion weighted imaging fMRI Grant E
Schaefer P
Sorensen AG
Rosen BR

 
Neurological
Mean transit time (MTT) Stroke MRI (combined Arterial spin labeling and Dynamic susceptibility contrast) CAPTIVE

Harris G
Hoge R
Ostergaard L
Rosen B
Sorensen AG
Wald LL

MTT helps to stratify patients in clinical trials MR perfusion territory imaging Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Mediastinal nodal status Lung neoplasm / primary and secondary PET
MRI
CT
Fischman AJ
McLoud TC
Weissleder R

Physiologic imaging with FDG or iron oxide particles in NSCLC

Oncology / Neoplasm
Micro-architecture deterioration Osteoporosis Digital radiographs 3D microMRI 3D microCT Rosenthal DI Fine element modeling (FEM) to predict mechanical properties

Musculoskeletal Metabolic
Microarchitecture deterioration Osteoporosis Digital radiographs 3D microMRI 3D microCT Rosenthal DI Fine element modeling (FEM) to predict mechanical properties

Musculoskeletal Metabolic
Microcalcifications Breast neoplasm Raman Spectroscopy Feld MS (MIT) Differential diagnosis of benign from malignant microcalcifications

Oncology / Neoplasm
Microvascular blood volume Breast neoplasm US O'Neill MJ Microbubble contrast agents

Oncology / Neoplasm
Microvascular blood volume and microvascular density

CNS neoplasm / primary and secondary fMRI
MRI
Belliveau
Kennedy D
Rosen BR

 
Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Microvascular density Breast neoplasm US O'Neill MJ Microbubble contrast agents

Oncology / Neoplasm
Microvessel density (MVD) Breast neoplasm MRI Kopans DB Magnetic susceptibility-based contrast agent OR GD-DTPA with dynamic echo planar imaging

Oncology / Neoplasm
MR cholangio- pancreatography Calculus disease MRI Sahani D
Prasad S

 
Endocrine Gastrointestinal
MR cholangio-pancreatography Biliary stricture MRI Sahani D
Prasad S


 
Gastrointestinal
MS plaque demylination Multiple sclerosis MRI Jenkins B
Rosen BR
Stufflebeam SM

 
Neurological Inflammatory
Musculoskeletal blood flow Skeletal muscle injury and repair PET Alpert NM Fischman AJ Animal study Use of H2(15)O to study muscle metabolism

Musculoskeletal
Myocardial blood flow via 13N-ammonia

Coronary artery disease Nuclear medicine SPECT Fischman A
 
Cardiology / Vascular Metabolic
Myocardial blood flow via 13N-ammonia Ischemic heart disease Nuclear medicine SPECT

Fischman A  
Cardiology / Vascular
Myocardial contractility / function Coronary artery disease MRI Nuclear Medicine Brady T
Fischman A

  Cardiology / Vascular Metabolic
Myocardial function contractility Myocarditis Nuclear medicine Fischman A  
Cardiology / Vascular Inflammatory Infectious disease Endocrine Metabolic

Myocardial function contractility Myocarditis MRI Brady T  
Cardiology / Vascular Inflammatory Infectious disease Endocrine Metabolic

Myocardial perfusion Coronary artery disease Nuclear medicine Fischman A  
Cardiology / Vascular Metabolic

Myoinositol Alzheimer's disease MRS Gonzalez RG
Jenkins B


 
Neurological Metabolic
Myoinositol (MI) CNS AIDS / neuroinflammation neurodegeneration MRS Gonzalez R
Schaefer P
Schwamm LH


 
Neurological
N-acetylaspartate (NAA) Alzheimer's disease MRS Gonzalez RG
Jenkins B

 
Neurological Metabolic
N-acetylaspartate (NAA) Hodgkin's disease MRS Jenkins B
Kennedy D
Rosas D
Rosen BR

 
Oncology / Neoplasm
N-acetylaspartate (NAA) CNS AIDS / neuroinflammation neurodegeneration MRS Gonzalez R
Schaefer P
Schwamm LH

 
Neurological
N-acetylaspartate (NAA) Hepatic encephalopathy MRS Grant E
Jenkins BG
Schaefer P

 
Neurological
N-acetylaspartate (NAA) CNS neoplasm / primary and secondary MRS Gonzalez R
Husiman TA
Sorensen AG

Metabolism, tumor viability and response to therapy Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
N-acetylaspartate (NAA) Huntington's disease MRS Jenkins BG
Rosen B

 
Neurological
N-acetylaspartate (NAA) Images Brain function / neuronal content MRI chemical shift Echo-planar imaging (EPI)

Gonzalez RG
Jenkins B
Rosen B

 
Neurological Metabolic
N-acetylaspartate (NAA) lateralization

Epilepsy MRS Jenkins BG  
Neurological
N-acetylaspartate (NAA) levels over time

Parkinson’s disease MRS Gonzales RG Jenkins BG  
Neurological
Negative defect Bone fracture Plain radiographs Palmer W Rosenthal DI


 
Musculoskeletal
Neural activation of dorsolateral pre-frontal cortex, hippocampus and cerebellum Schizophrenia PET Alpert N
Fischman A
Heckers S
Rauch SL
Schaefer P

Regional activation during cognitive paradigms Neurological
Neuritic (senile) plaque Alzheimer's disease In vivo multiphoton microscopy Hyman B Can use histochemical or immuno-fluorescence for amyloid B

Neurological Metabolic
Neuronal activation Visual process disorders fMRI Mandeville JB
Rosen B
Tootell RBH

 
Neurological
Neuronal activation Stroke fMRI Diffuse optical topography (Near infrared spectroscopy)

Boas D
Mandeville JB
Strangman G

NIRS agrees well with fMRI, useful in longitudinal studies Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Neuronal activation CMRO2 Stroke Arterial spin labeling MRI O2 15 PET Xenon Enhanced CT

Wald LL  
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Neuronal injury Alzheimer's disease MRI Gonzalez RG

 
Neurological Metabolic
Opacities Respiratory syncytial virus CT McLoud TC Shepard J

 
Infectious disease
Osseous bridging Bone fracture / healing Plain radiographs
MRI
CT

Palmer W Rosenthal DI


 
Musculoskeletal Metabolic
Osteoblastic activity Bone fracture / healing Nuclear medicine Fischman AJ  
Musculoskeletal Metabolic

Osteoblastic activity Osseous neoplasm / primary and secondary

Nuclear medicine Fischman A
 
Oncology / Neoplasm Musculoskeletal
Osteoblastic activity Osteoarthritis Nuclear medicine Fischman AJ  
Musculoskeletal Inflammatory

Osteoblastic activity Osteomyelytis Nuclear medicine Fischman AJ Uptake of bone-seeking radio-pharmaceuticals

Musculoskeletal Infectious disease
Osteoblastic activity Soft tissue infection Nuclear medicine Fischman AJ  
Infectious disease Musculoskeletal Inflammatory

Osteochondral lesions Joint injury / general MR arthrography Palmer WE Assesses the stability of lesions

Musculoskeletal
Oxygen consumption Brain development Optical Imaging Boas D
Dunn A

Diffuse optical imaging (DOI) Neurological Metabolic
Oxygen consumption CNS neoplasm / primary and secondary, presence and viability Optical Boas D
Dunn A

Diffuse Optical imagine (DOI) Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Oxygen consumption Stroke Optical imaging Boas D
Dunn A
Lo E

 
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Oxygen utilization Alzheimer's disease Optical Boas D
Dunn A

Combining of multi-wavelength and laser speckle contrast imaging

Neurological Metabolic
Partial thickness and full thickness tears Elbow injury / collateral ligament MR arthrography Palmer WE Distinguishes thickness of tears

Musculoskeletal
Perfusion / diffusion Myocarditis MRI Brady T  
Cardiology / Vascular Inflammatory Infectious disease Endocrine Metabolic

Perfusion / diffusion Myocarditis Nuclear medicine Fischman A  
Cardiology / Vascular Inflammatory Infectious disease Endocrine Metabolic

Peri-intestinal inflammation Inflammatory bowl disease (IBD) MRI Hahn P Tissue FISP pulse sequence

Gastrointestinal Inflammatory
Peri-rectal fat involvement Rectal carcinoma / recurrent MRI Hahn P
Prasad S
Saini S

Predictor of high probability of local recurrence Gastrointestinal Oncology / Neoplasm
Perianeurysmal fibrosis Inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm (IAAA)

CT Brady T
Saini S
Waltman A


 
Inflammatory Cardiology / Vascular
Periarticular erosion Amyloid arthropathy / crystalline disease Plain radiographs MRI Palmer W Rosenthal DI  
Musculoskeletal Inflammatory Metabolic

Periarticular erosion Arthritis / inflammatory Plain radiographs
MRI
Palmer W Rosenthal DI

 
Musculoskeletal Inflammatory

Periarticular erosion Arthritis / septic Plain radiographs MRI Palmer W Rosenthal DI

 
Infectious disease Musculoskeletal Inflammatory

Periarticular erosion Pigmented villonodular synovitis Plain radiographs
MRI
Palmer W Rosenthal DI


 
Inflammatory Musculoskeletal

Periarticular erosion Synovial chondromatosis Plain radiographs
MRI
Palmer W Rosenthal DI


 
Musculoskeletal Oncology / Neoplasm

Permeability surface area product Pulmonary neoplasm PET MRI Fischman AJ McLoud TC

 
Oncology / Neoplasm
Pharmacokinetics Biodistribution Non-tumor uptake Neoplasm / primary and secondary SPECT PET MRS Fischman AJ Jenkins B Additional use for determining in vivo heterogeneity of tumor uptake

Oncology / Neoplasm
Phosphocreatine CNS neoplasm / primary and secondary MRS Gonzalez R
Husiman TA
Sorensen AG

Metabolism, tumor viability and response to therapy

Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Plaque Type Vulnerable plaque Optical coherence topography Weissleder R  
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular Inflammatory

Portal Venous invasion Pancreatic carcinoma MRA Halpern EF
Saini S
Waltman AC

Better predictor than conventional angiography

Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal
Presence of contralateral synchronous cancers Breast neoplasm MRI Kopans DB 4 of 17 patients (24%) had contralateral cancer occult to physical exam, mammography and US

Oncology / Neoplasm
Prostate volume Benign prostatic hypertrophy US
CT
MRI
Hahn PF
Mueller PR
O’Neill MJ

 
Oncology / Neoplasm Genitourinary
Prostate volume Prostate cancer US
CT
MRI
Hahn PF
Mueller PR
O'Neill MJ

 
Oncology / Neoplasm Genitourinary
Prostate-specific antigens (PSA) Prostate cancer Optical Ntziachristos V Weissleder R

Active, stable Fluorochromes Oncology / Neoplasm
Pulmonary consolidation Alveolar pulmonary edema CT
MRI

McLoud T Shepard J  
Cardiology / Vascular
Pulmonary consolidation Aveolar bronchial cell carcinoma CT
MRI

McLoud TC Shepard J  
Oncology / Neoplasm
Pulmonary consolidation Pneumonitis CT
MRI
Plain radiographs
McLoud TC Shepard J  
Infectious disease Inflammatory
Pulmonary consolidation Pneumonitis CT
MRI
McLoud TC Shepard J

 
Infectious disease Inflammatory
rCMRO2 Brain function / drugs of abuse fMRI Jenkins B
Kosofsky B
Mandeville JB
Rosen B

Response to stimuli Neurological Metabolic
Regional blood flow and blood volume Breast neoplasm MRI Kopans DB Magnetic susceptibility-based contrast agent OR GD-DTPA with dynamic echo planar imaging

Oncology / Neoplasm
Relative % contrast washout Adrenal neoplasm CT Boland GW
Hahn PF
Mueller PR

Differential diagnosis of adrenal masses Oncology / Neoplasm Genitourinary
Relative cerebral blood flow (rCBF) Anorexia PET Alpert N
Fischman A
Rauch SL

 
Neurological
Relative cerebral blood flow (rCBF) Brain function / mapping - dopaminergic neurotransmitter activity

Pharmacologic MRI PET fMRI Bogdanov M
Chen YC
Jenkins B
Rosen B

Using D-amphetamine and CFT Neurological Metabolic
Relative cerebral blood flow index (rCBF) Stroke Diffusion weighted imaging fMRI MRI (morphometry)

Kennedy D
Lo E
Rosen B

 
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) Hypertension Dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI Hunter G
Rosen B

Using Gd-DTPA following L-arginine infusion

Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) Stroke / ischemic CAPTIVE MRI Bogdanov A
Jenkins B
Kwong K
Weissleder R

 
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) Brain function / mapping - dopaminergic neurotransmitter activity

Pharmacologic MRI PET fMRI Bogdanov M
Chen YC
Jenkins B
Rosen B

Using D-amphetamine and CFT Neurological Metabolic
Restricted diffusion Abscess Diffusion weighted imaging Grant E
Gonzalez RG
Schaefer P

 
Neurological Inflammatory Infectious disease
Restricted diffusion Infectious disease / -empyema -herpes virus -CJD

Diffusion weighted imaging Grant E
Schaefer P
 
Neurological Infectious disease
Restricted diffusion Migraine Optical Boas D
Dunn A

 
Neurological
Restricted water mobility Brain injury Diffusion weighted imaging Apparent diffusion constant Huisman TA
Gonzalez RG
Schaefer P
Sorensen AG

Cytotoxic edema, vasogenic edema and diffuse axonal injury Neurological
Right posterior hepatic notch Cirrhosis MRI
CT
Hahn PF
Sahani D
Discrimination of alcohol from virus-induced cirrhosis

Gastrointestinal Infectious disease Inflammatory
ROC curve analysis of 13 CT radiographic parameters Ovarian neoplasm / presence and viability CT O'Neill MJ Predictive model of relative success of surgical cytoreduction

Oncology / Neoplasm Genitourinary
Seizure focus Epilepsy MEG / EEG Halgren E
Stufflebeam SM

 
Neurological
Soft tissue inflammation Myopathy MRI Palmer W Rosenthal DI  
Endocrine Inflammatory Infectious Disease Cardiology / Vascular

Soft tissue inflammation Neoplasm / primary and secondary Nuclear medicine MRI Fischman AJ
Palmer WE
Rosenthal DI

 
Oncology / Neoplasm
Soft tissue inflammation Soft tissue infection MRI Nuclear medicine Fischman AJ
Palmer W
Rosenthal DI

 
Infectious disease Musculoskeletal Inflammatory
Soft tissue inflammation Trauma MRI Palmer W
Rosenthal DI

 
Musculoskeletal Inflammatory
Soft tissue inflammation Trauma Nuclear medicine Fischman AJ  
Musculoskeletal Inflammatory

Soft tissue inflammation Simple renal cysts US CT MRI Mueller PR  
Oncology / Neoplasm Genitourinary

Soft tissue uptake of radiotracers Trauma Nuclear medicine Fischman AJ   Musculoskeletal Inflammatory

Somatostatin receptor Neoplasm / primary and secondary Optical Ntziachristos V
Weissleder R

Targeted Fluorochromes Oncology / Neoplasm
Spatial cartilage thickness Joint injury / hip and knee Co-planar MRI Palmer WE
Rosenberg AE
Rosenthal DI

MR using fat-saturated 3D spoiled gradient-echo images (SPGR)

Musculoskeletal
Specific regional uptake, target selection and functional activation Schizophrenia fMRI Kuperberg G
Manoach D
Stufflebeam SM
Rosen B

Regional activation during cognitive paradigms Neurological
Spermine levels Prostate cancer MRS magic angle spinning Cheng LL Gonzalez RG Proposed endogenous inhibitor of prostate CA growth

Oncology / Neoplasm Genitourinary
Spiculated lymph node Rectal carcinoma / recurrent MRI Hahn P
Prasad S
Saini S

Predictor of high probability of local recurrence

Gastrointestinal Oncology / Neoplasm
Splenic tissue characterization Splenic cysts MRI Hahn PF
Harisinghani M
Mueller PR
Weissleder R

Using ultrasmall superpara-magnetic iron oxide Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal
Splenic tissue characterization Splenic neoplasm MRI Hahn PF
Harisinghani M
Mueller PR
Weissleder R

Using ultrasmall superpara-magnetic iron oxide Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal
Splenic tissue characterization Splenic trauma MRI Harisinghani M
Weissleder R
Using ultrasmall superpara-magnetic iron oxide

Gastrointestinal Cardiology / Vascular
Subendothelial lipid pool Vulnerable plaque Optical coherence topography Near infrared spectroscopy

Brady T
Muller J
 
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Synovial thickening Arthritis / inflammatory MRI Palmer W
Rosenthal DI

 
Musculoskeletal Inflammatory
Synovial thickening Arthritis / septic Plain radiograph
MRI
Palmer W
Rosenthal DI

 
Infectious disease Musculoskeletal Inflammatory

Synovial thickening Pigmented villonodular synovitis MRI Palmer W Rosenthal DI


 
Musculoskeletal Oncology / Neoplasm
Targeted cellular and molecular probes CNS neoplasm / primary and secondary, presence and viability

Optical MRI PET Kwong KK
Weissleder R
Exogenous contrast agents Animal models

Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Targeted mircobubble contrast agents Vulnerable plaque Contrast enhanced US O'Neill MJ
Waltman A
 
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular Inflammatory

Thalamic neuronal loss Multiple sclerosis MRI
fMRI
MRS
Gonzalez RG
Fischl B
Kuperberg G

 
Neurological Inflammatory
Thalamus and substantia nigra hyperintensities Encephalitis / west nile virus MRI Gonzalez RG Sorensen AG Disease confirmation and progression monitoring

Neurological Infectious disease Inflammatory
Thickness and composition of plaque Vulnerable plaque Intravascular
US
IVUS
Brady T
Lev M
O'Neill NJ
Waltman A

 
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular Inflammatory
Tissue characterization Osseous neoplasm / primary and secondary

CT MRI Rosenthal DI  
Oncology / Neoplasm Musculoskeletal
Tissue characterization Multiple sclerosis fMRI
MRI
morphometry

Fischl B
Kuperberg G

 
Neurological Inflammatory
Trabecular pore size Osteoporosis MRI Rosenthal DI  
Musculoskeletal Metabolic

Tumor angiogenesis CNS neoplasm / primary and secondary MRI
MRS
MRA
Davis T
Rosen B
Wald LL
Weissleder R

Measured by dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) and monocrystalline iron oxide nanoparticles (MION)

Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Tumor angiogenesis Glioma MRI
MRS
MRA
Davis T
Rosen B
Wald LL
Weissleder R

Measured by dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) and monocrystalline iron oxide nanoparticles (MION)

Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Tumor angiogenesis Neoplasm / primary and secondary MRI Dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) / monocrystalline iron oxide nanoparticles (MION)

Bogdanov A
Bremer C
Rosen BR
Weissleder R

High resolution MR using long circulating iron oxide contrast agents Rodent model Oncology / Neoplasm
Tumor angiogenesis Macromolecular contrast extravasate Neoplasm / primary and secondary MRI SPECT Bogdanov A Weissleder R Animal model using pegylated DOTA derivatized graft copolymers

Oncology / Neoplasm
Tumor associated enzymatic activity Breast neoplasm Optical Near infrared spectroscopy Bremer C
Bogdanov A
Weissleder R

Expression levels of cathepsin-B activity in animal models of breast cancer

Oncology / Neoplasm
Tumor growth rate CNS neoplasm / primary and secondary MRI Bogdanov A Weissleder R Serial studies of tumor volume using uptake of long-circulating dextrin coated iron oxide (LCDIO) Rodent model

Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Tumor growth rate CNS Neoplasm / schwannoma and neurofibromatosis

MRI Tang Y Weissleder R Transgenic murine models of neurofibromatosis

Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Tumor growth rate Neoplasm / primary and secondary MRI SPECT Dual tracer NMR Bogdanov A Kwong K Weissleder R SPECT via uptake of long-circulating dextrin coated iron oxide (LCDIO) Rodent model

Oncology / Neoplasm
Tumor margin Glioma MRI Weissleder R Via ultra small particulate iron oxide (USPIO)

Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm
Tumor mass Neoplasm / primary and secondary

Optical Weissleder R  
Oncology / Neoplasm
Tumor volume Breast neoplasm

MRI Harris G
 
Oncology / Neoplasm
Tumoral proteinase Neoplasm / primary and secondary Optical Near infrared spectroscopy Bogdanov A
Mahmood U
Weissleder R

Rodent model Oncology / Neoplasm
Vascular architecture Hepatic neoplasm / primary and secondary Multidector CT angiography (MDCTA) Hahn PF
Mueller PR
Saini S
Sahani D

Presurgical treatment planning Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal
Vascular diameter and circumference

Iliac aneurysm US CT MRI Waltman A
 
Cardiology / Vascular
Vascular diameter and circumference

Aortic aneurysm US CT MRI Waltman A  
Cardiology / Vascular
Vascular involvement Pancreatic carcinoma MRA Halpern EF
Saini S
Waltman AC

Better predictor than conventional angiography Oncology / Neoplasm Gastrointestinal
Vascular lumen diameter Arteriosclerosis / central CTA MRA Angiography Gonzalez R
Hunter G
Lev M
Waltman A

 
Metabolic Cardiology / Vascular
Vascular lumen diameter Dissection / peripheral CT
MRI
Angiography

Waltman A  
Cardiology / Vascular
Vascular occlusion Stroke / ischemic Diffusion / perfusion weighted imaging MRI CT perfusion CTA Gonzalez R
Harris G
Sorensen AG

 
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Vascular volume fraction Glioma Optical Weissleder  
Neurological Oncology / Neoplasm

Vascular volume fraction

Sarcoma Optical Weissleder R
Oncology / Neoplasm
Ventilation / perfusion mismatch

Pulmonary embolism Nuclear medicine Fischman A
 
Cardiology / Vascular
Water content Bone fracture MRI -T1 Diffusion weighted imaging / Apparent diffusion constant Palmer WE Impact fractures demonstrate prominent edema, distraction fractures exhibit minimal edema

Musculoskeletal
Water EF Stroke / ischemic CAPTIVE MRI Bogdanov A
Jenkins B
Kwong K
Weissleder R

 
Neurological Cardiology / Vascular
Whole brain morphometry Obsessive compulsive disorder MRI (morphometry) Kennedy D
Rosen BR

Findings include sig. less total white-matter and greater cortex and opercular volumes

Neurological

*Given the breadth of biomarkers in imaging and the rapid progress being made in this area, this catalog necessarily represents a work in progress.  While the Center has done its best to incorporate imaging biomarkers from beyond the MGH community, our limited resources mean that the foundation of this catalog is the imaging biomarkers available at MGH.  Should you wish to bring additional imaging biomarkers to our attention, please click here.

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