Monitoring Response to Therapy

Monitoring response to treatment is a key element in the management of infectious diseases, yet controversies still persist on reliable biomarkers for noninvasive response evaluation. Considering the limitations of invasiveness of most diagnostic procedures and the issue of expression heterogeneity of pathology, molecular imaging is better able to assay in vivo biologic processes noninvasively and quantitatively. The usefulness of 18F-FDG-PET/CT in assessing treatment response in infectious diseases is more promising than for conventional imaging.
Source: Seminars in Nuclear Medicine - Category: Nuclear Medicine Authors: Source Type: research