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Pain Imaging in the Emerging Era of Molecular Medicine

Year: 2010

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: With the dawn of the twenty-first Century, imaging has assumed a new role in disease-oriented science. Regarding pain, the emphasis clearly turned from structural to functional imaging with functional molecular imaging assuming the leading edge. This trend parallels the efforts of biologists working to understand the molecular messages of cell and cell systems relevant to human disease processes. While originally imaging has been a stand-alone, documentary tool, today's metabolic and molecular imaging technologies provide quantitative insight into inter and intraindividual athogenetic processes relevant to human disease, complementing and expanding upon bench-type research. Imaging has become an indispensable tool in pain research.

Source: Methods in molecular biology

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-323-7_38

Authors: Christian S. Stohler, Jon-Kar Zubieta

Institutions: University of Maryland, Baltimore, University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine

Language: English

Topic: Pain Mechanisms and Treatments

Subfield: Physiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green