TY - JOUR T1 - Current Progress of Aptamer-Based Molecular Imaging JF - Journal of Nuclear Medicine JO - J Nucl Med SP - 353 LP - 356 DO - 10.2967/jnumed.113.126144 VL - 55 IS - 3 AU - Andrew Z. Wang AU - Omid C. Farokhzad Y1 - 2014/03/01 UR - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/55/3/353.abstract N2 - Aptamers, single-stranded oligonucleotides, are an important class of molecular targeting ligand. Since their discovery, aptamers have been rapidly translated into clinical practice. They have been approved as therapeutics and molecular diagnostics. Aptamers also possess several properties that make them uniquely suited to molecular imaging. This review aims to provide an overview of aptamers’ advantages as targeting ligands and their application in molecular imaging. ER -