Nuclear medicine practice in the field of infection and inflammation imaging: a pragmatical survey

Affiliations

¹ Unità Di Medicina Nucleare, TracerGLab, Dipartimento Diagnostica Per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli IRCCS, Largo Agostino Gemelli 8, 00168, Rome, Italy.
² Clinic of Nuclear Medicine, Imaging Institute of Southern Switzerland, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
³ Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland.
⁴ Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc and Institute of Clinical and Experimental Research (IREC), Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Avenue Hippocrate 10, B-1200, Brussels, Belgium.
⁶ Nuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
⁷ Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine, Hofstra University and Northwell Health, Hempstead, NY, USA.
⁸ Medical Imaging Center, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9700, RB, Groningen, the Netherlands. a.w.j.m.glaudemans@umcg.nl.

Editorial

Salvatore Annunziata et al. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2022 Jun.

. 2022 Jun;49(7):2113-2119.

doi: 10.1007/s00259-022-05725-9.

¹ Unità Di Medicina Nucleare, TracerGLab, Dipartimento Diagnostica Per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli IRCCS, Largo Agostino Gemelli 8, 00168, Rome, Italy.
² Clinic of Nuclear Medicine, Imaging Institute of Southern Switzerland, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
³ Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland.
⁴ Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc and Institute of Clinical and Experimental Research (IREC), Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Avenue Hippocrate 10, B-1200, Brussels, Belgium.
⁶ Nuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
⁷ Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine, Hofstra University and Northwell Health, Hempstead, NY, USA.
⁸ Medical Imaging Center, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9700, RB, Groningen, the Netherlands. a.w.j.m.glaudemans@umcg.nl.

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