Table of Contents
Preface vii
Chapter 1 Combining Imaging and Drug Delivery for the Treatment of Severe Diseases Simona Mum Patrick Couverur 1
Chapter 2 Increased Sensitivity for Medical Imaging Using Non-Ionizing Nanomedicine as Contrast Agents Cyrille Richard Bich-Thuy Doan Nathalie Mignet 7
Chapter 3 MRI T2 Weighted Theranostic Nanodeviccs and Chemotherapy Sophie Laurent Luce Vander Elst Dimitri Stanicki Robert N.Muller 45
Chapter 4 MRI T1 Weighted Theranostic Nanodcvices Lucie Sancey François Lux Géraldine Le Duc Sabin Carme Olivier Tillement 67
Chapter 5 Optical Imaging and Chemotherapy Guillaume Bort Simona Mura Patrick Couvreur 83
Chapter 6 Plasmonic Nanoparticles-Coated Microbubbles for Theranostic Applications Mark A. Borden Jacob D. Dove Todd W. Murray 115
Chapter 7 Contribution of Nuclear Medicine to Cancer Nanotheranostics Thomas Lars Andresen Anncatrine L. Petersen Anders E. Hansen Jonas R. Henriksen 147
Chapter 8 Nanotheranostics in Gene Therapy Madhura Deshpande Shravan Kumar Sriraman Vladimir Torchilin 191
Chapter 9 Nanotheranostics in Cardiovascular Diseases Maya Juenet Mariana Varna Cedric Chauvierre Didier Letoumeur 223
Chapter 10 Stimuli-Responsive Nanothcranostics Basit Jameen Jun Wu Critian Vilos Andrew Whyte David Werstler Lori Pollit Omid G. Farokhzad 267
Chapter 11 Advancing the Practical Clinical Utility in Personalized Medicine: Capabilities and Lessons Learned for Pharmacology and Pharmaceutics Ioannis S. Vizirianakis Christina Karavasili Elsa P. Amanatiadou Dimitrios G. Fatouros 297
Editors' Biographies 325
Contributors 327
Index 333