Cancer Theranostics, Second Edition

Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen, PhD, is a Senior Investigator and Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine (LOMIN) at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is also founding editor of journal Theranostics. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Idaho. Dr. Zhang is Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles (more than 15 peer-reviewed articles in top-ranking journal JNM) in the most reputed scientific journals in the respective field. She was awarded the prestigious Thomas O’Dorisio Young Investigator Award (only 1 awardee every two years world-wide), one of TOP thirty early career professionals who stand out as “Ones to Watch” by the SNMMI, as well as Majd-Gilday Investigator Award from SNMMI, etc., and serves on the editorial board of Clin Nucl Med (IF 10.782) and is the only editorial board member from Singapore. She currently serves as Dean of Research of International Centers for Precision Oncology (ICPO) Academy, Germany Stephen T.C. Wong, PhD (Computer Science), PE (Electrical Engineering), is John S. Dunn Distinguished Endowed Chair of Biomedical Engineering at Houston Methodist Hospital, the Founding Chair of Department of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering at Houston Methodist Research Institute, and a Professor of Radiology, Neurosciences, Pathology, and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College.

• 1. Cancer theranostics – An updated introductionPart 1: In Vitro Diagnostics2. Tissue specimen and liquid biopsy testing for cancer diagnostics3. Circulating tumor cells and cancer associated fibroblasts in IVD of cancer4. Extracellular vesicle-based IVD of cancer5. Non-coding RNAs in cancer diagnosis6. Circulating tumor DNA technology in cancer diagnosis7. Nanotechnology in IVD of cancerPart 2: Anatomical, Functional and Molecular Imaging in Cancer Theranostics8. Radionuclide imaging of cancer9. Luminescence imaging of cancer10. MRI and MPI of cancer11. Ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging of cancer12. Raman spectroscopy and imaging for cancer diagnosis13. OCT and OCE of cancer14. Artificial intelligence in cancer imagingPart 3 Image-Guided Cancer Therapy15. Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) of cancer16. Image-guided surgery (IGS) of cancer17. Image-guided thermal ablation of cancer18. Image-guided cancer drug deliveryPart 4: Theranostics Platforms19. Radiotheranostics20. Magnetotheranostics21. Immunotheranostics22. Optotheranostics23. Sonotheranostics24. RNA theranostics25. DNA theranosticsPart 5: Production, regulations and translations of theranostics26. Scale-up production of theranostic formulas27. Clinical translation and regulations of theranostics