Radionuclide Imaging of Infection and Inflammation

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Elena Lazzeri specialized in Nuclear Medicine at the University of Pisa (Italy) and did her PhD in 2009 at the University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen (The Netherlands).

Since 1995 she is Adjunct Professor for the Postgraduate Specialty in Nuclear Medicine at the University of Pisa, as well as lecturer at several teaching courses for Continuing Medical Education in Nuclear Medicine throughout Italy since 2002.

Among other activities, she is responsible for "Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases" at the Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa (Italy), Expert Consultant of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna (Austria), Teacher at the European School of Nuclear Medicine (ESNM) for Theoretical and Practical Courses on "Infection and Inflammation", certified speaker of the European School of Multimodality Imaging and Therapy (ESMIT) and Senior Advisor of the EANM Committee on "Infection and Inflammation".

Her main research interests are: Imaging infection and inflammation with particular emphasis to orthopedic infections, Fever of Unknown Origin, and cardiovascular infections with standard imaging techniques and with novel molecular imaging agents.

She is member of several national and international scientific societies, among them the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), the International Research Group in Immunoscintigraphy and Immuno-Therapy (IRIST) and the International Society of Radiolabelled Blood Elements (ISORBE).

Dr. Lazzeri has authored/co-authored over 40 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and over 15 invited chapters in books; she has also co-edited one book.

Alberto Signore

1 Normal Findings from Different Radiopharmaceuticals and Techniques, with Variants and Pitfalls.- 2 Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Soft Tissue Infections.- 3 Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Bone and Joint Infection.- 4 Miscellaneous Bone and Joint conditions.- 5 Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Joint Prosthesis Infections.- 6 Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Vascular Prosthesis.- 7 Nonorthopedic or Cardiovascular Implantable Device Infection.- 8 Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Infections and Inflammation of Central Nervous System, Head and Neck Structures.- 9 Infective Endocarditis and Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device Infection.- 10 Nuclear Medicine Imaging of  Fever of Unknown Origin.- 11 Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Abdominal Infections and Inflammation.- 12 Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Diabetic Foot.- 13  Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Lung Infection.- 14 Nuclear Medicine Imaging in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases.

"A major didactic value is in the representation, in each illustrated case ... . The reader, both younger and the most experienced, has the opportunity to understand or refresh the pathophysiological bases ... . this atlas allows an excellent training on the use of techniques and in the interpretation of images acquired with radionuclide procedures. It can result very useful not only to nuclear physicians and radiologists, but also to clinicians ... ." (Milena Masone and Luigi Mansi, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Vol. 48, 2021)

“A major didactic value is in the representation, in each illustrated case … . The reader, both younger and the most experienced, has the opportunity to understand or refresh the pathophysiological bases … . this atlas allows an excellent training on the use of techniques and in the interpretation of images acquired with radionuclide procedures. It can result very useful not only to nuclear physicians and radiologists, but also to clinicians … .” (Milena Masone and Luigi Mansi, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Vol. 48, 2021)