Although inflammation is a crucial and beneficial process in the acute physiologic defense
against pathogens, excessive, uncontrolled, or chronic inflammatory reactions can lead to …

Integrated positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) with the glucose
analogue, 2-[18 F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (FDG), is an evolving hybrid imaging technique …

In August 2016, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the introduction of FDG-PET imaging
and its enormous impact on the day-to-day practice of medicine [1]. The concept of imaging …

In the field of inflammation/infection imaging, nuclear medicine techniques offer non-
invasive tools to detect early patho-physiological changes before the development of …

During the last decade, the interest in nuclear medicine techniques for diagnosing infections
has been growing [1]. There is an increasing body of evidence to support the use of [18F] …

Nuclear medicine techniques have been an integral part of infection and inflammation
imaging for decades. Conventional radionuclide imaging tests, such as bone scintigraphy …

The diagnosis of infections is made by the isolation of the pathogen by microbiological
assays. However, biopsy is an invasive procedure, and its findings depend on the quality of …

Aim The diagnosis, severity and extent of a sterile inflammation or a septic infection could be
challenging since there is not one single test able to achieve an accurate diagnosis. The …

Inflammation is involved in a number of medical conditions, and imaging-based diagnosis is
frequently used for timely identification and localization of inflammatory foci. Inflammation is …

Interest in molecular imaging of infections and inflammation has dramatically increased as
its clinical relevance has become unambiguously strengthened by the need to clearly …