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The ability to detect and diagnose medical conditions accurately and at the earliest stage of disease is often critical for effective treatment and recovery. In this regard, continued developments of medical imaging systems have vastly improved our ability to visualize body tissues and processes, enabling more accurate detection of medical conditions. However, recent trends for personalized or precision medicine, i.e. delivering “the right treatment to the right patient at the right time”, imposes new requirements for imaging modalities and calls for new approaches to provide the highest efficacy in diagnostic and predictive capabilities.
The main goal of this Research Topic is to improve and expand readers' knowledge of novel medical imaging techniques and trends that have a direct impact on the advancement of precision medicine in cancer diagnosis and treatment, and incorporating it in clinical reality. This Research Topic highlights the latest advances in medical imaging for cancer diagnosis including those that open up new possibilities in the field of precision medicine. The implementation of precision medicine requires a shift towards organ-targeted high-resolution, high-sensitivity imaging methods that provide disease-specific information at the diagnostic stage. Precision imaging is also intertwined with the development of new indicators that not only visualize disease but also pinpoint its specific type, greatly improving adherence to treatment plans and ultimately saving lives.
It is our pleasure to call for original and review papers within the scope of this Research Topic. Theoretical, experimental and clinical studies (including Case Reports, Clinical Trials, Corrections, Editorial, Hypothesis and Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Review, Systematic Review and Technology and Code) are welcome.
Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following research areas:
- Materials and Technologies for Radiation Detectors
- Advances in Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging for cancer detection and treatment follow-up
- Dual-modality imaging
- Image-guided interventions
- Advances in High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)
- Radiopharmaceuticals and contrast agent tracers for cancer diagnosis
Important Note: Manuscripts consisting solely of bioinformatics, computational analysis, or predictions of public databases which are not accompanied by validation (independent cohort or biological validation in vitro or in vivo) will not be accepted in any of the sections of Frontiers in Oncology.
The ability to detect and diagnose medical conditions accurately and at the earliest stage of disease is often critical for effective treatment and recovery. In this regard, continued developments of medical imaging systems have vastly improved our ability to visualize body tissues and processes, enabling more accurate detection of medical conditions. However, recent trends for personalized or precision medicine, i.e. delivering “the right treatment to the right patient at the right time”, imposes new requirements for imaging modalities and calls for new approaches to provide the highest efficacy in diagnostic and predictive capabilities.
The main goal of this Research Topic is to improve and expand readers' knowledge of novel medical imaging techniques and trends that have a direct impact on the advancement of precision medicine in cancer diagnosis and treatment, and incorporating it in clinical reality. This Research Topic highlights the latest advances in medical imaging for cancer diagnosis including those that open up new possibilities in the field of precision medicine. The implementation of precision medicine requires a shift towards organ-targeted high-resolution, high-sensitivity imaging methods that provide disease-specific information at the diagnostic stage. Precision imaging is also intertwined with the development of new indicators that not only visualize disease but also pinpoint its specific type, greatly improving adherence to treatment plans and ultimately saving lives.
It is our pleasure to call for original and review papers within the scope of this Research Topic. Theoretical, experimental and clinical studies (including Case Reports, Clinical Trials, Corrections, Editorial, Hypothesis and Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Review, Systematic Review and Technology and Code) are welcome.
Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following research areas:
- Materials and Technologies for Radiation Detectors
- Advances in Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging for cancer detection and treatment follow-up
- Dual-modality imaging
- Image-guided interventions
- Advances in High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)
- Radiopharmaceuticals and contrast agent tracers for cancer diagnosis
Important Note: Manuscripts consisting solely of bioinformatics, computational analysis, or predictions of public databases which are not accompanied by validation (independent cohort or biological validation in vitro or in vivo) will not be accepted in any of the sections of Frontiers in Oncology.
Keywords: Medical Imaging Technologies, Radiation Medical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Positron Emission Tomography; Breast Cancer, Mammography, Digital Breast Tomosynthesis, High Intensity Focused Ultrasound
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
