Glaudemans Andor W J M, Gheysens Olivier
Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc and Institute of Clinical and Experimental Research (IREC), Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
Front Med (Lausanne). 2023 Feb 27;10:1149925. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1149925. eCollection 2023.
Nuclear medicine imaging techniques are now widely accepted and increasingly used for diagnosing and treatment monitoring of infectious and inflammatory diseases. The latter has been exemplified by numerous recent clinical guidelines in which PET imaging is now part of the diagnostic flowcharts. In this perspective paper we discuss the current available guidelines, the current limitations, and we provide the future aims of research to achieve the holy grail in nuclear medicine: the differentiation between infection, inflammation and malignancy.
核医学成像技术现已被广泛接受，并越来越多地用于感染性和炎症性疾病的诊断及治疗监测。后者已在众多近期临床指南中得到体现，其中PET成像现已成为诊断流程图的一部分。在这篇观点论文中，我们讨论了当前可用的指南、当前的局限性，并提出了核医学研究的未来目标，以实现核医学的圣杯：区分感染、炎症和恶性肿瘤。
