An Insight to Nanoliposomes as Smart Radiopharmaceutical Delivery Tools for Imaging Atherosclerotic Plaques: Positron Emission Tomography Applications.

Atherosclerosis is a chronic progressive disease which is known to cause acute cardiovascular events as well as cerebrovascular events with high mortality. Unlike many other diseases, atherosclerosis is often diagnosed only after an acute or fatal event. At present, the clinical problems of atherosclerosis mainly involve the difficulty in confirming the plaques or identifying the stability of the plaques in the early phase.