Most books discuss general and broad topics regarding molecular imagings‎.‎ However‎,‎ Ultrasmall Lanthanide Oxide Nanoparticles for Biomedical Imaging and Therapy‎,‎ will mainly focus on lanthanide oxide nanoparticles for molecular imaging and therapeutics‎.‎ Multi‎-modal imaging capabilities will discussed‎,‎ along with up‎-converting FI by using lanthanide oxide nanoparticles‎.‎ The synthesis will cover polyol synthesis of lanthanide oxide nanoparticles‎,‎ Surface coatings with biocompatible and hydrophilic ligands will be discussed and TEM images and dynamic light scattering ‎(‎DLS‎)‎ patterns will be provided‎.‎ Various techniques which are generally used in analyzing the synthesized surface coated nanoparticles will be explored and this section will also cover FT‎-‎,‎ IR analysis‎,‎ XRD analysis‎,‎ SQUID analysis‎,‎ cytotoxicity measurements and proton relaxivity measurements‎.‎ In vivo MR images‎,‎ CT images‎,‎ fluorescence images will be provided and Therapeutic application of gadolinium oxide nanoparticles will be discussed‎.‎ Finally‎,‎ future perpectives will be discussed‎.‎ That is‎,‎ present status and future works needed for clinical applications of lanthanide oxide nanoparticles to molecular imagings will be discussed‎.‎ * Synthesis will be discussed in detail* General characterizations of nanoparticles before in vivo applications will be discussed* The book will cover all possible applications of lanthanide oxide nanoparticles to molecular imagings such as MRI‎,‎ CT‎,‎ FI as well as therapeutics