Inflammatory and infectious diseases include many different clinical conditions not often well recognized and characterized with conventional radiology and biochemical tests. Radiological techniques show anatomical changes that usually occur in chronic stages of the disease leading to a delayed diagnosis and therapy. The possibility of nuclear medicine imaging to detect biological and biochemical changes in the earliest phases of diseases allows the clinician not only to promptly identify the infective or inflammatory focus but also to establish the best therapeutic approach for patients. The recent availability of different monoclonal antibodies, analogues of growth and signaling factors, and many other innovative molecules offers to physicians a wide spectrum of promising radiopharmaceuticals as markers for different pathological events. We invite authors to submit original research and review articles that could show advances in this field. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Development and testing of novel radiopharmaceuticals for imaging inflammation and infection
• Identifying common patterns for nuclear medicine and radiological diagnosis of inflammatory diseases
• Elucidating the role of host immune response
• Identification of novel markers to image white blood cells and their subpopulations
• New cellular and animal models for preclinical research in inflammation and infection
• Imaging atherosclerosis by PET and MRI
• Imaging rheumatoid arthritis by PET and MRI
• Imaging vasculitis by PET and angio-CT
• Imaging sarcoidosis and its response to therapy by PET and HRCT
• Imaging retroperitoneal fibrosis by PET and MRI
• Imaging inflammatory bowel diseases by PET and MRI
• Imaging inflammatory response to cancer

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