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Nature Medicine 6, 351 - 354 (2000)
doi:10.1038/73219

In vivo magnetic resonance imaging of transgene expression

Ralph Weissleder1, Anna Moore1, Umar Mahmood1, Rajeev Bhorade1, Helene Benveniste2, E. Antonio Chiocca3 & James P. Basilion1,3

  1. Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Building 149, 13th Street, 5403, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA
  2. The Center for In vivo Microscopy, Duke University , Durham, North Carolina, USA
  3. Molecular Neurooncology Laboratory, Neurosurgery Service, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston , Massachusetts, USA

Correspondence to: Ralph Weissleder1 e-mail: weissleder@helix.mgh.harvard.edu

Real-time imaging of gene expression in vivo at high spatial resolutions has been a long-cherished goal in molecular research. If such techniques were available, both endogenous and exogenous (for example, gene therapy) expression could be studied in live animals and potentially in a clinical setting.

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