Growing Research Funding to Propel Global Small Animal Imaging Market
Over the past few years, small animal imaging technology has been recognized as one of the most successful tools used for preclinical research. Small animal imaging technology is being extensively used for drug development and developmental biology studies across the globe. The small animal imaging market includes the equipment and reagents that are primarily used for preclinical imaging of rats and mice for the development of drugs and for gene expression studies. Small animal imaging devices are similar to the imaging modalities that are utilized for diagnostic purposes in humans. Due to their small size, devices used for small animal imaging are referred to as micro-devices, and include micro-SPECT, micro-MRI, and others. Functional, molecular, and anatomical analysis in pre-imaging provides important information that can be used to understand various activities of pharmaceutical compounds during phase I of clinical trials or at the preclinical stage. Such analysi...