Morphologic and metabolic imaging offers crucial diagnostic information for evaluating a broad spectrum of systemic inflammatory and infectious diseases. Functional imaging can provide essential information for accurate detection and response evaluation to therapy.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Gastrointestinal inflammatory diseases:
- Crohn's disease
- Ulcerative colitis
- Other inflammatory diseases:
- Pulmonary and systemic sarcoidosis
- Systemic vasculitides involving large and middle caliber vessels
- Systemic infectious diseases:
- COVID-19 viral infection with the associated lung and extra pulmonary manifestations
- Other viral and bacterial acute and chronic systemic infections
Imaging modalities:
- PET/CT using 18F-FDG
- CT
- X-ray
Interpretation criteria:
- Quantitative
- Chest CT Severity Score for assessing severe COVID-19 lung infection
- SUVmax
- Qualitative
- Detection and severity of COVID-19 lung disease
- Detection and severity of COVID-19 extent and severity of extra pulmonary manifestations of COVID-19 infection
- Assessment of presence, metabolic activity and extent of disease.
- Metabolic evaluation of response to therapy
- Detection of clinically and/or laboratory silent systemic inflammatory diseases
