Abstract
Infection countinue to be a significant health problem and the cause of patient mortality and morbidity especially in developing countries. Accurate and timely detection of infection and inflammation may have essential implications for the managing of patients. Imaging by nuclear medicinal techniques, due to its high sensitivity, offers a fascinating choice for diagnosis of infectious foci. The use of radiopharmaceuticals for targeting of infection specifically is increasing because of their ability to distinguish between septic and aseptic inflammation. Specific targeting of the microorganisms is the main strategy for enhancing the selectivity of new radiopharmaceuticals for imaging of infective lesions. In this context, radiolabeled antibiotics and antimicrobial peptides are thoroughly studied in order to investigate their diagnostic value as specific imaging agents. In this review, the aspects of presently used radiopharmaceuticals to image infection and inflammatory procedures and their potential to differenciate infection from inflammation are discussed.
Keywords: Antibiotics, antimicrobial peptides, infection, inflammation, imaging, nuclear medicine, targeting radiopharmaceuticals.
Call for Papers in Thematic Issues
Intelligent Information Retrieval for Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging
Multispectral and hyperspectral imaging is an interdisciplinary research area, widely focuses on spectral, spatial, and temporal data. It offers a plethora of opportunities to efficiently analyze the vast area of the earth's surface. However, there are numerous factors such as dimensionality and size of the hyperspectral data, lesser training samples, ...read more
Machine and Deep Learning in Medical Image Diagnosis
Medical Image Processing regards a set of methodologies that have been developed over recent years with the purpose of improving medical image quality, improving medical data visualization, understanding, and assisting medical diagnosis, and so on. The application of machine and deep learning methods in sensing and imaging can potentially have ...read more
Quantum Machine Learning for Medical Data and Imaging
Quantum computing has promised a significant speedup in certain computationally intensive tasks that are intractable on classical computers. Researchers in quantum machine learning, such as those working in computer vision, image processing, biomedical analysis, and related topics, may play an important role in comprehending and working on complicated medical data, ...read more
39