Review Article
Current and Future Lymphatic Imaging Modalities for Tumor Staging
Table 1
Various research modalities.
| Modality | Product | Type of cancer | Application | Reference |
| Ultrasound | Sonophoresis | Breast cancer | Therapeutic | Husseini and Pitt, 2009 [4] | Nanotechnology | Nanoconjugate drug | Breast cancer | Therapeutic | Cai et al., 2011 [5] | Nanotechnology | Stealth liposome | Breast cancer | Therapeutic | Qiang et al., 2009 [6] | MRI | Combine with ultrasound | Prostate cancer | Therapeutic | Nune et al., 2011 [1] | Nanotechnology | Nanoconjugate drug | Breast cancer | Therapeutic | Cai et al., 2010 [7] | Nanotechnology | Iron oxide | Melanoma | Therapeutic | Balivada et al., 2010 [8] | Nanotechnology | Quantum dot | Melanoma | Diagnostic | Ballou et al., 2007 [9] | PET | New tracer | Breast cancer | Diagnostic | Authier et al., 2008 [10] | PET | New tracer | Prostate cancer | Diagnostic | Mease, 2010 [11] | Nanotechnology | Quantum dot | Melanoma | Diagnostic | Kobayashi et al., 2009 [12] | Ultrasound | Contrast enhanced | Breast cancer | Diagnostic | Wang and Thanou, 2010 [13] | PET | New tracer | Melanoma | Diagnostic | Cody et al., 2004 [14] | Ultrasound | Photoacoustic imaging | Melanoma | Diagnostic | Staley et al., 2010 [15] | Ultrasound | Photoacoustic imaging | Breast cancer | Diagnostic | Bhang et al., 2009 [16] | Ultrasound | Photoacoustic imaging | Breast cancer | Diagnostic | Song et al., 2008 [17] | Ultrasound | Contrast enhanced | Breast cancer | Diagnostic | Weskott, 2008 [18] |
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