Supporting Information S1 Examples of programming using the SEED servers (coded in Perl). Eight application examples are provided, seven of which (1-4 and 6-8) are described in detail in the text. (PDF) ECR 2012 Book of Abstracts - A - Postergraduate Educational Programme  The rapid technological development of medical imaging over the past few decades has transformed radiology into an essential part of modern medical practice. In parallel with this, the rapid pace of biologic advances has made this the age of molecular medicine. Thanks to the emerging field of molecular imaging, the radiology community has the opportunity to help lead a revolution in modern medicine towards optimisd diagnosis and therapy of individual patients. Molecular imaging is the in vivo characteristion and measurement of biological processes that occur at the cellular and molecular level at a macroscopic level of resolution. This is in contrast to the current conventional, anatomically based radiology. The most widely used molecular imaging modalities include optical (fluorescence, bioluminescence); radionuclide (PET, SPECT); ultrasound; and MRI (spectroscopy, diffusion-weighed imaging). The interaction of several disciplines, including molecular cell biology and chemistry, has demonstrated the advantages of multi-modality, multi-disciplinary approach to molecular imaging. There are three currently used imaging strategies to noninvasively monitor and measure molecular events. They have been broadly defined as "direct", "biomarker" and "indirect" imaging. Although most of these imaging techniques are in the preclinical or early clinical phases, radiology will benefit greatly from these methods in the effort to detect and diagnose these diseases, to target therapies and to monitor results at the molecular level. Molecular imaging is the key technology by which to accomplish these goals. Imaging practitioners should think of themselves primarily as biologists whose task is to image what happens functionally and structurally at the molecular level. Learning Objectives: