Imaging Techniques in Drug Discovery

Throughout the many stages of drug discovery, various imaging techniques play an important role in identifying drug targets, testing candidate efficacy, and the drug’s biodistribution and pharmacokinetics.

Imaging techniques

Imaging techniques allow non-invasive visualization, characterization, and quantification of biological events within organisms in response to drugs. These techniques make use of the properties of probes or the tissue itself and are important for disease research and drug discoveries.

Imaging relies on developing agents that are selectively taken up or retained by the biological process of interest. And this agent generates a signal that can be visualized by radiography, ultrasound, magnetic resonance, and optical (bioluminescence or fluorescence) imaging.