Andreas Walter & Julia Mannheim 
Imaging Modalities for Biological and Preclinical Research: A Compendium, Volume 2 [EPUB ebook] 
Preclinical and multimodality imaging

Preface
Part II: In vivo imaging
II.1 – Intravital microscopy
II.2 – Optical coherence tomography (OCT)
II.3 – Photoacoustic imaging
II.4 – Optical imaging
II.4.a Fluorescence
II.4.b Bioluminescence
II.4.c Cerenkov luminescence imaging
II.5 – Confocal and multiphoton endomicroscopy
II.6 – Preclinical in vivo ultrasound imaging
II.7 – Magnetic resonance imaging II.7.a Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging
II.7.b Functional magnetic resonance imaging
II.7.c Hyperpolarized 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging
II.8 – Magnetic particle imaging
II.9 – Computed tomography in biomedicine
II.10 – Positron emission tomography (PET)
II.11 – Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
Part III: Correlative multimodal imaging and image data fusion
III.1 – Biological correlative imaging
III.1.a Correlative light electron microscopy (CLEM)
III.1.b Correlative atomic force microscopy
III.2 – (Pre)clinical hybrid imaging
III.2.a PET/CT imaging
III.2.b PET/SPECT/CT
III.2.c Positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging
III.2.d Combined fluorescence molecular tomography and computed tomography (FMT/CT) to track and quantify systemically applied NIR-dye labeled nucleic acid
III.2.e Hybrid PET-CT-ultrasound imaging
III.3 – Correlative multimodality imaging across scales
III.4 – Multimodal image processing III.4.a Introduction—computer-assisted analysis of multimodality image data
III.4.b Multimodality image registration
III.4.c Learning-based approaches for multimodality imaging
III.4.d Multimodality image segmentation
III.4.e Visualization for correlative multimodality imaging
III.4.f Data compression algorithms for biomedical images
III.4.g Perspectives and conclusion—computer-assisted analysis of multimodality image data
Part IV: Future of Imaging in Biological and Preclinical Research
IV.1 Emerging technologies and outlook

Andreas Walter is Director of Austrian Bio Imaging/CMI (www.bioimaging-austria.at). His goal is to advance correlated multimodality imaging (CMI) as a valuable tool in biomedical research. He is also the main proposer and Chair of the EU-funded COST Action COMULIS (CA17121) that aims at promoting the benefits of CMI through showcase pipelines and paving the way for its technological advancement and implementation as a versatile tool in biological and preclinical research (www.comulis.eu).Julia Mannheim is a group leader for PET and Multimodal Imaging Science in the Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany, alongside being the Deputy Director of the Department since November 2014. She is an expert in PET quantification and reproducibility/reliability of the acquired data. Her focus is currently on the standardization of preclinical imaging to enhance the scientific integrity and reliability of the acquired data. Carmel J Caruana is Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Physics of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Malta where he lectures in x-ray imaging, fluoroscopy, magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, ultrasound and nuclear medicine imaging including PET/CT and PET/MRI. Carmel has over 30 years experience in the teaching of all imaging modalities to all healthcare professions and at all levels including the specialty level. He is very much involved in curriculum development for Medical Physicists at the European and international levels and was previously the Chair of the Education and Training Committee of the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics. In the last few years he is encouraging Medical Physicists to expand their scope of practice to pre-clinical and biological imaging.