Approved for 1.0 Category A CE credit

This presentation will define molecular imaging, the associated imaging origin of existing tumor structures, and the variety of imaging modalities used to identify tumors in a patient. The panel will discuss the growing biomedical research discipline of molecular imaging and how the science allows for the visualization, classification, and quantification of biologic processes on a cellular and subcellular level in human patients. Additionally, the group will evaluate the current and potential infrastructure of imaging departments performing molecular imaging procedures. The origins of disease processes and their development into pathophysiologic conditions also will be examined.