TY - JOUR T1 - Imaging Pulmonary Inflammation JF - Journal of Nuclear Medicine JO - J Nucl Med SP - 1764 LP - 1770 DO - 10.2967/jnumed.115.157438 VL - 57 IS - 11 AU - Philip M. Scherer AU - Delphine L. Chen Y1 - 2016/11/01 UR - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/57/11/1764.abstract N2 - Lung inflammatory diseases contribute significantly to the socioeconomic burden of disease. Yet very few new, effective therapies for respiratory disease have been approved for use. A major contributing factor is the lack of biomarkers that can accurately quantify the lung inflammatory burden and can be used to understand the contribution of lung inflammation to loss in lung function. Molecular imaging approaches can detect and quantify the recruitment and activation of specific immune cells in lung inflammation. We review the clinical techniques used to image lung inflammation, provide an overview of clinical and emerging PET techniques for quantifying lung inflammation, and discuss potential clinical applications. ER -