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. 2010 Jul;65(7):517-21.
doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2010.04.005.

The biology underlying molecular imaging in oncology: from genome to anatome and back again

R J Gillies  1 , A R Anderson, R A Gatenby, D L Morse
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The biology underlying molecular imaging in oncology: from genome to anatome and back again

R J Gillies et al. Clin Radiol. 2010 Jul.

Abstract

Cancers are complex, evolving, multiscale ecosystems that are characterized by profound spatial and temporal heterogeneity. The interactions in cancer are non-linear in that small changes in one variable can have large changes on another. These multiple interacting phenotypes and spatial scales can best be understood with appropriate mathematical and computational models. Imaging is central to this investigation because it can non-destructively and longitudinally characterize spatial variations in the tumour phenotype and environment so that the system dynamics over time can be captured quantitatively.

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Figure 1
Functional, Molecular and Anatomic Imaging of Cancer processes.
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Figure 2
Components of the Tumor Microenvironment.
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