Abstract
Early diagnosis of infection in order to perform adequate treatment is crucial. Several radiopharmaceuticals presently available play a useful role in the diagnosis of bacterial infections, while new ones are being evaluated. In this review, we highlight tracers based on different uptake mechanisms that have been used in the evaluation of the bacterial infections. The performance of [18F]FDG, radiolabeled blood cells, [68Ga]Ga-citrate, and peptides used in humans is discussed and a large group of experimental new bacteria-specific PET tracers is in the pipeline.
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Ankrah, A. O., & Elsinga, P. H. (2020). Radiopharmaceuticals for PET Imaging of Infection. In Nuclear Medicine in Infectious Diseases (pp. 19–35). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25494-0_3
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