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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-8-1
pubmed:abstractText
Targeted therapeutics have challenged how imaging techniques assess tumour response to treatment because many new agents are thought to cause cytostasis rather than cytotoxicity. Advanced tracer development, image acquisition, and image analysis have been used to produce quantitative biomarkers of pathophysiology, with particular focus on measurement of tumour vascular characteristics. Here, we critically appraise strategies available to generate imaging biomarkers for use in development of targeted therapeutics. We consider important practical and technical features of data acquisition and analysis because these factors determine the precise physiological meaning of every biomarker. We discuss the merits of volume-based and other size-based metrics for assessment of targeted therapeutics, and we examine the strengths and weaknesses of CT, MRI, and PET biomarkers derived from conventional clinical data. We review imaging biomarkers of tumour microvasculature and discuss imaging strategies that probe other physiological processes including cell proliferation, apoptosis, and tumour invasion. We conclude on the need to develop comprehensive compound-specific imaging biomarkers that are appropriate for every class of targeted therapeutics, and to investigate the complementary information given in multimodality imaging studies of targeted therapeutics.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1474-5488
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
9
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
766-76
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18672212-Antineoplastic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:18672212-Biological Markers, pubmed-meshheading:18672212-Contrast Media, pubmed-meshheading:18672212-Diagnostic Imaging, pubmed-meshheading:18672212-Drug Delivery Systems, pubmed-meshheading:18672212-Female, pubmed-meshheading:18672212-Forecasting, pubmed-meshheading:18672212-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:18672212-Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, pubmed-meshheading:18672212-Magnetic Resonance Imaging, pubmed-meshheading:18672212-Male, pubmed-meshheading:18672212-Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:18672212-Neovascularization, Pathologic, pubmed-meshheading:18672212-Positron-Emission Tomography, pubmed-meshheading:18672212-Radiographic Image Enhancement, pubmed-meshheading:18672212-Sensitivity and Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:18672212-Tomography, X-Ray Computed
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Quantitative imaging biomarkers in the clinical development of targeted therapeutics: current and future perspectives.
pubmed:affiliation
Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. james.o'connor@manchester.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review