Automated Quantification of Early Bone Alterations and Pathological Bone Turnover in Experimental Arthritis by in vivo PET/CT Imaging

Abstract The assessment of bone damage is required to evaluate disease severity and treatment efficacy both in arthritis patients and in experimental arthritis models. Today there is still a lack of in vivo methods that enable the quantification of arthritic processes at an early stage of the diseas...

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Main Authors: Bianca Hoffmann, Carl-Magnus Svensson, Maria Straßburger, Björn Gebser, Ingo M. Irmler, Thomas Kamradt, Hans Peter Saluz, Marc Thilo Figge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02389-6