Biological Imaging

Biological imaging may refer to any imaging technique used in biology. Typical examples include:

  • Bioluminescence imaging, a technique for studying laboratory animals using luminescent protein
  • Calcium imaging, determining the calcium status of a tissue using fluorescent light
  • Diffuse optical imaging, using near-infrared light to generate images of the body
  • Diffusion-weighted imaging, a type of MRI that uses water diffusion
  • Fluorescence lifetime imaging, using the decay rate of a fluorescent sample
  • Gallium imaging, a nuclear medicine method for the detection of infections and cancers
  • Imaging agent, a chemical designed to allow clinicians to determine whether a mass is benign or malignant
  • Imaging studies, which includes many medical imaging techniques
  • Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a non-invasive method to render images of living tissues
  • Medical imaging, creating images of the human body or parts of it, to diagnose or examine disease
  • Microscopy, creating images of objects or features too small to be detectable by the naked human eye
  • Molecular imaging, used to study molecular pathways inside organisms
  • Optical imaging, a technique to allow cognitive neuroscientists to "see" brain activity
  • Optoacoustic imaging, using the photothermal effect, for the accuracy of spectroscopy with the depth resolution of ultrasound
  • Photoacoustic Imaging, a technique to detect vascular disease and cancer using non-ionizing laser pulses
  • Ultrasound imaging, using very high frequency sound to visualize muscles and internal organs

Famous quotes containing the word biological:

    Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.
    Margaret Mead (1901–1978)