Prospective of ⁶⁸Ga Radionuclide Contribution to the Development of Imaging Agents for Infection and Inflammation

Figure 6

[⁶⁸Ga]Ga-citrate PET/CT examination of a patient affected by acute osteomyelitis before (left panel) and after (right panel) surgical curettage showing uptake in the transaxial (a, c) and 3D reconstruction images (b, d; red area). Absence of the uptake after the therapy confirms complete response to the treatment. Adapted from [19].

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