PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Dima A. Hammoud
TI  - Molecular Imaging of Inflammation: Current Status
AID  - 10.2967/jnumed.115.161182
DP  - 2016 Aug 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine
PG  - 1161--1165
VI  - 57
IP  - 8
4099  - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/57/8/1161.short
4100  - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/57/8/1161.full
SO  - J Nucl Med2016 Aug 01; 57
AB  - The ability to image inflammation in vivo can improve our understanding of the pathophysiology underlying various disease etiologies, including cancer, atherosclerosis, and neurodegeneration. A great wealth of preclinical and translational research has been and is currently being developed to decipher the involvement of the immune system in disease pathophysiology, quantify the course of a disease, and visualize the potential detrimental effects of excessive inflammation. Down the road, the ultimate goal is to have clinical noninvasive in vivo imaging biomarkers of inflammation that will help diagnose disease, establish prognosis, and gauge response to preventative and therapeutic strategies.