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ReviewTheranostics2025

Imaging hypoxia for head and neck cancer: current status, challenges, and prospects.

Wenhui Huang, Nemin Li, Sheng Zhu, Yuze Zhang, Xinyang Song, Bin Zhang, Hao Yan, Jie Tian, Kun Wang, Shuixing Zhang

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Review in Theranostics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Wenhui HuangState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Molecules and Druggability Assessment, the First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China.
Nemin LiState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Molecules and Druggability Assessment, the First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China.
Sheng ZhuDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, the Affiliated Hospital of Xiangnan University, Chenzhou, 423000, China.
Yuze ZhangState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Molecules and Druggability Assessment, the First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China.
Xinyang SongState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Molecules and Druggability Assessment, the First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China.
Bin ZhangState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Molecules and Druggability Assessment, the First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China.
Hao YanTsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
Jie TianBeijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, School of Engineering Medicine, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China.
Kun WangCAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, the State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
Shuixing ZhangState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Molecules and Druggability Assessment, the First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hypoxia can substantially impact clinical outcomes in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) by promoting tumor invasion, metastasis, immune escape, and therapy resistance. Given the growing interest in targeting hypoxia for cancer therapy, noninvasive methods are needed to accurately detect hypoxia and evaluate the tumor response to treatment. This review summarizes recent advances in hypoxia-targeted probes and imaging techniques, emphasizing their imaging mechanisms, strengths, and limitations. We focused on the promising clinical applications of hypoxia imaging, especially those currently used in clinics, such as positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, and highlighted their roles in guiding personalized therapy. Future directions include optimizing imaging probes to improve safety profiles, integrating multimodal imaging, applying machine learning models to analyze multiparametric data, and establishing standardized 3-dimensional

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Head and Neck NeoplasmsHypoxiaTumor HypoxiaAnimalsHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMultimodal ImagingPositron-Emission Tomographyhead and neck cancersmagnetic resonance imagingoptical molecular imagingpositron emission tomographytumor hypoxia

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PMID40860130
PMCPMC12374539

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