Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) Imaging in Plant Seedlings and Mammalian Cells -- Luciferase Protein Complementation Assays for Bioluminescence Imaging of Cells and Mice -- Hybrid Raman-Fluorescence Microscopy on Single Cells using Quantum Dots -- Labeling of Mesenchymal Stem Cells with Bioconjugated Quatum Dots -- Quantification of miRNA abundance in single cells using locked nucleic acid-FISH and enzyme labeled fluorescence -- Imaging Fate of Stem Cells at a Cellular Resolution in the Brains of Mice -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Brain Inflamation using Microparticles of Iron Oxide -- Optical Characterization of Arterial Apoptosis -- Intravital Near-Infrared Fluorescence Molecular Imaging of Atherosclerosis -- MR Imaging of Transplanted Stem Cells in Myocardial Infarction -- In Vivo Imaging of the Dynamics of Different Variants of EGFR in Glioblastomas -- Fluorescence lifetime-based optical molecular imaging -- PET maging of avb3 Integrins in Cancer Patients -- Quantitative Approaches to Amyloid Imaging -- Molecular imaging of myocardial remodeling after infarction -- Dual-radionuclide Brain SPECT for the Differential Diagnosis of Parkinsonism.

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