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Executive Editor
Weibo Cai, PhD
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI, USA

Associate Editor-in-Chief
Abass Alavi, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Associate Editor-in-Chief
Chaitanya R. Divgi, MD,
Columbia University,
New York, NY, USA

Associate Editor-in-Chief
Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Editor-in-Chief
Belinda Seto, PhD,
Bethesda
MD, USA

Associate Editor-in-Chief
Paula M. Jacobs, PhD,
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD, USA

Associate Editor-in-Chief
Robert H. Mach, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA

Associate Editor-in-Chief
Jeff W.M. Bulte, PhD,
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA
Founding Editorial Board

Carolyn J. Anderson, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

C. Allen Chang, PhD, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen, PhD, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Bethesda, MD, USA

Peter L. Choyke, MD, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA

Johannes Czernin, MD, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Guus A.M.S. van Dongen, PhD, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Frank Fan, PhD, Promega Corporation, Madison, WI, USA

Keyvan Farahani, PhD, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA

Katherine W. Ferrara, PhD, University of California, Davis, CA, USA

Sanjiv Sam Gambhir MD, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Jerry D. Glickson, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

David M. Goldenberg, MD, PhD, The Garden State Cancer Center, Morris Plains, NJ, USA

John C. Gore, PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Thomas M. Grist, MD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

Roger N. Gunn, PhD, GlaxoSmithKline, Clinical Imaging Centre, London, UK

Liselotte Højgaard, MD,DMSc, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

John A. Katzenellenbogen, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

Thomas Krucker, PhD, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA

Craig S. Levin, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

M. Elizabeth Meyerand, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

R. Jerry Nickles, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

Martin G. Pomper, MD, PhD, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Anthony F. Shields, MD, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA

Albert  J.  Sinusas, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Mathew L. Thakur, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia PA, USA

Jie Tian, PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

David Tuch, PhD, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Jean-Luc Vanderheyden, PhD, JLVMI Consulting LLC, Waukesha, WI, USA

Wolfgang A. Weber, MD, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Jamey P. Weichert, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

Anna Wu, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Jackie Y. Ying, PhD, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore

James A. Zagzebski, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA



Senior Editorial Board

Eric O. Aboagye, PhD, Imperial College London, London, UK

Simon Ametamey, PhD, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Joseph M. Backer, PhD, SibTech, Inc., Brookfield, USA

James P Basilion, PhD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

Sandip Basu, MD, Radiation Medicine Centre (BARC), Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India.

Richard P. Baum, MD, Zentralklinik Bad Berka, Germany

François Bénard, MD, Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Hans-Jürgen Biersack, MD, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Henning Boecker, MD, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Ronald Boellaard, PhD, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Otto C. Boerman, PhD, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Martin W. Brechbiel, PhD, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA

Young-Tae Chang, PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Chin-Tu Chen, PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Robin P. Choudhury, MA, DM, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Timothy R. DeGrado, PhD, Brigham and Womens Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Onofre T. DeJesus, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

Susan L. Deutscher, PhD, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

Yu-Shin Ding, PhD, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Janet F. Eary, MD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Henry Engler, MD, PhD, Uruguayan Centre of Molecular Imaging, Montevideo, Uruguay

Sean B. Fain, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

Stefano Fanti, PhD, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Omid C. Farokhzad, MD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Barbara M. Fischer, MD, PhD, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark

Jinming Gao, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

Luca Giovanella, MD, PhD, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Michael L. Goris, MD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Gary L. Griffiths, PhD, Imaging Probe Development Center, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA

Timothy J. Hall, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

R. Scott Harris, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Karl Herholz, MD, FRCP, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Poul F. Høilund-Carlsen, MD, DMSci, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Gang Huang, MD, PhD, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Zhiwei Huang, PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Andreas H. Jacobs, MD, PhD, European Institute for Molecular Imaging, University of Münster, Germany

Patricia Iozzo, MD, PhD, National Research Council (CNR) / Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy

Jae Min Jeong, PhD, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Sangyong Jon, PhD, School of Life Sciences, GIST, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

Susanne Keiding, MD,  Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ulrich Keller, MD, University Hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany

Fabian Kiessling, PhD, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Andreas Kjær, MD, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Hisataka Kobayashi, MD, PhD, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA

Hiroto Kuwabara, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Werner Langsteger, MD, St Vincent's Hospital, Linz, Austria

Dong Soo Lee, MD, PhD, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Jae Sung Lee, PhD, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Jason S. Lewis, PhD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Chun Li, PhD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Fuyou Li, PhD, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Bin Liu, PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Shuang Liu, PhD, Purdue University School of Health Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, USA

Yi-Hwa Liu, PhD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Nicholas J Long, PhD, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, UK

Zheng-Rong Lu, PhD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

Luigi Mansi, MD, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Chuanbin Mao, PhD, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

Hui Mao, PhD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

Ralph P. Mason, PhD, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

Tarik F. Massoud, MD, PhD, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Ryogo Minamimoto, MD, PhD, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan

Anna Moore, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Felix M. Mottaghy, MD, PhD, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Joseph A. O'Donoghue, PhD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Kuniaki Ogasawara, MD, PhD, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

Mikako Ogawa, PhD, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

David RJ Owen, PhD, Imperial College London, London, UK

Alan Packard, PhD, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Scott B. Perlman, MD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

John O. Prior, MD, PhD, CHUV University Hospital Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Jianghong Rao, PhD, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

Ornella E. Rimoldi, MD, Istituto Scientifico Universitario San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

Frank Roesch, MD, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Hideo Saji, PhD, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

David M Schuster, MD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

Ludwig G Strauss, MD, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, BW, Germany

René A. Tio, MD, PhD, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

Vladimir Tolmachev, PhD, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Wolfgang A. Tomé, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

Drew A. Torigian, MD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Werner Vach, PhD, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany

Katherine A. Vallis, PhD, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Fijs W.B. Van Leeuwen, PhD, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Fan Wang, PhD, Peking University, Beijing, China

Juergen K. Willmann, MD,  Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Wing-tak Wong, PhD, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Ed X. Wu, PhD, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Lei Xing, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA

PD Habib Zaidi, PhD, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland  

Guo-Jun Zhang, MD, PhD, The Cancer Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Yumin Zhang, MD, PhD, Global Pharmaceutical R & D, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, USA

Gang Zheng, PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Qi-Huang Zheng, PhD, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Rong Zhou, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Hongming Zhuang, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Ilan Ziv, MD, Aposense, Ltd., Petach Tiqva, Israel

Jamal Zweit, PhD, DSc, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA



Associate Editorial Board

Byeong-Cheol Ahn, MD, PhD, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Mian Alauddin, PhD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Mohsen Beheshti, MD, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Linz, Austria

Peeyush Bhargava, MD, Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA

Sandip Biswal, MD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA , USA

Hendrikus H. Boersma, PharmD, PhD, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Hancheng Cai, PhD, Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA

Feng Cao, MD, PhD, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xian, China

Sean Carlin, PhD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Kai Chen, PhD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Ming-Kai Chen, MD, PhD, Yale University, New Heaven, CT, USA

Nanguang Chen, PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Wengen Chen, MD, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA

Zhen Cheng, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA , USA

Frederick T. Chin, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Bradley T. Christian, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

Paolo Ciana, PhD, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Jennifer Cochran, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA , USA

Alexander K. Converse, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

Bart Cornelissen, PhD, Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, Oxford, UK

Cathy S. Cutler, PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA

Jean N. DaSilva, PhD, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Abhijit De, PhD, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India

Jason L. Dearling, PhD, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Edward J. Delikatny, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Wawrzyniec L. Dobrucki, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

Marina Emborg, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

Christopher J. Endres, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Elba Cristina Sá de Camargo Etchebehere, MD, PhD, Sirio-Libanes Hospital, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Georges El Fakhri, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Roger R Fulton, PhD, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Edward E. Graves, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA , USA

Jan Grimm, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Yueqing Gu, PhD, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China

Mathieu Hatt, PhD, Laboratory of Medical Information Processing, University Hospital of Brest, France

Jiang He, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

Ken Herrmann, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Marc P. Hickeson, MD, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Michael Hofman, MD, Theh University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jason P. Holland, PhD, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ETH Zurich, , Switzerland

Jeng-Jong Hwang, PhD, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Andrei Iagaru, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA , USA

Orit Jacobson, PhD, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Farouc Jaffer, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Bing Jia, PhD, Peking University, Beijing, China

Keon Wook Kang, MD, PhD, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Kimberly A. Kelly, PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

Soonhag Kim, PhD, CHA Stem Cell Institute, CHA University, Seoul, Korea

Twan Lammers, PhD, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Zhenghong Lee, PhD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

Xiao-Feng Li, MD, PhD, University of Louisville, Louisville,  KY, USA

Zibo Li, PhD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Zongjin Li, PhD, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Guozheng Liu, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, USA

Shuanglong Liu, PhD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Zhaofei (Jeff) Liu, PhD, Peking University, Beijing, China

Zhonglin Liu, PhD, University of Arizona,  Tucson, AZ, USA

Zhuang Liu, PhD, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Henry K.F. Mak, MD, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Charles Manning, PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

James R. Mansfield, PhD, Caliper Life Sciences, Inc., Hopkinton, MA, USA

Tracy R. McKnight, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

Zdravka O. Medarova, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Reinhard Meier, PhD, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Yubin Miao, PhD, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Philip W. Miller, PhD, Imperial College London, London, UK

Eyal Mishani, PhD, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Evan  D. Morris, PhD, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Jogesh Mukherjee, PhD, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

Arutselvan Natarajan, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Tapan K. Nayak, PhD, Pharma Research and Early Development, F Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland.

Orhan K. Öz, MD, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

Dongfeng Pan, PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

Ramasamy Paulmurugan, PhD, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

Wellington Pham, PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Wenchao Qu, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Pritha Ray, PhD, Tata Memorial Centre, Navi Mumbai, India

Sangeeta Ray, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Martin G. Rodriguez-Porcel, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Ralf Schirrmacher, PhD, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Peter J.H. Scott, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Youngho Seo, PhD, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

Michael Sørensen, MD, PhD, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Lars Stelter, MD, Department of Radiology, Charité, Berlin, Germany

Xiankai Sun, PhD, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

Stephen H. Thorne, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Mei Tian, MD, PhD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Jun Toyohara, PhD, Chiba University Center for Forensic Mental Health, Chiba, Japan

S. Sendhil Velan, PhD, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, Singapore

Irina Velikyan, PhD, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Thaddeus J. Wadas, PhD, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Zhude (Will) Tu, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Neil Vasdev, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Frank Wuest, PhD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Jin Xie, PhD, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

Bengang Xing, PhD, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Yongjun Yan, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

Lily Yang, MD, PhD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

Yunpeng Ye, PhD, Howard University, Washington, D.C., USA

Imene Zerizer, MD, Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, London, UK

Xianzhong Zhang, PhD, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Yan Zhang, PhD, Nanjing University, China

Ming Zhao, PhD, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Yun Zhou, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA