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Optical Imaging Bibliography
The following list of research and review papers was compiled by members of the Optical Imaging Working Group to serve as a resource for students, researchers and educators. Nominations for additional articles to be included this resource may be sent to acoleman@snm.org.
For a more general bibliography, see the Molecular Imaging Bibliography.
General optical imaging and bioluminescence
- Contag CH and Bachmann MH. Advances in in-vivo bioluminescence imaging of gene expression. Annu Rev of Biomed Eng. 2002;4:235-260.
- Contag CH. In Vivo Pathology: Seeing with Molecular Specificity and Cellular Resolution in the Living Body. Annu Rev Path: Mechanisms of Disease. 2007;2:277-305.
- Conti E, Franks NP, Brick P. Crystal structure of firefly luciferase throws light on a superfamily of adenylate-forming enzymes. Biophysics Section, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, UK.
- Culver J, Akers W and Achilefu S. Multimodality Molecular Imaging with Combined Optical and SPECT/PET Modalities. J Nucl Med. 2008;49:169-172.
- Hillman EM. Optical brain imaging in vivo: techniques and applications from animal to man. J Biomed Opt. 2007;12(5):1402(1-28).
- Luker GD and Luker KE.Optical Imaging: Current Applications and Future Directions. J Nucl Med. 2008;49:1-4.
- Negrin RS and Contag CH. In vivo imaging using bioluminescence: a tool for probing graft-versus-host disease. Nat Rev Immunol. 2006;6:489.
- Thorne SH and Contag CH. Using in vivo bioluminescence imaging to shed light on cancer biology. Proceedings of the IEEE. 2005;93:750-762.
- Wang G, Cong W, Shen H, Qian X, Henry M, Wang Y. Overview of bioluminescence tomography-a new molecular imaging modality. Front Biosci. 2008;13:1281-1293.
- Wang LV, "Tutorial on photoacoustic microscopy and computed tomography," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics on Quantum Electronics. 2008;14:171–179.
- Wang LV and Wu HI. Biomedical Optics: Principles and Imaging, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2007. Sections 8.9 and 8.10, Chapters 9, 11, and 12.
- Weissleder R and Ntziachristos V. Shedding light onto live molecular targets. Nat Med. 2003;9:123-128.
- Welsh DK and Kay SA. Bioluminescence imaging in living organisms. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2005;16:73-78.
- Zipfel WR, Williams RM and Webb WW. Nonlinear magic: multiphoton microscopy in the biosciences. Nat Biotechnol. 2003;21:1369-1377.
Fluorescent imaging
- Eisenstein M. Helping cells to tell a colorful tale. Nat Methods. 2006;3:647-655.
- Frangioni JV. In vivo near-infrared fluorescence imaging. Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2003;7:626-634.
- Kovar JL, Simpson MA, Schutz-Geschwender A, and Oliver DM. A systematic approach to the development of fluorescence contrast agents for optical imaging of mouse cancer models. Anal Biochem. 2007;367:1-12.
- Levenson RM, Mansfield JR. Multispectral imaging in biology and medicine: slices of life. Cytometry A. 2006;69:748-758.
- Levenson RM, Lynch DT, Kobayashi H, et al. Multiplexing with multispectral imaging: from mice to microscopy. Ilar J. 2008;49:78-88.
- Ntziachristos V. Fluorescence molecular imaging. Annu Rev Biomed Eng. 2006;8:1-33.
- Rao J, Draglescu-Andrasi A and Yao H. Fluorescence imaging in vivo: recent advances. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2007;18:17-25.
- Shaner NC, Stienbach PA and Tsien RY. A guide to choosing fluorescent proteins. Nat Methods. 2005;2:905-909.