PET Imaging in Bone and Non-Bone Diseases
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Nuclear Medicine & Radiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2025 | Viewed by 1341
Special Issue Editors
Interests: PET imaging; bone metabolism; metastatic bone diseases; metabolic bone diseases; image analysis; radiomics; artificial intelligence
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Interests: imaging sciences; bone densitometry; radionuclide measurements of bone
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to this Special Issue entitled "PET Imaging in Bone and Non-Bone Diseases". PET imaging is a powerful tool for diagnosing and monitoring various health conditions. This Special Issue highlights its applications in the following aspects:
(1) Bone Diseases:
- Metabolic Disorders: Osteoporosis, Paget's disease, and CKD-related bone conditions.
- Cancer-Related: Bone metastases from breast and prostate cancers.
- Rare Diseases: Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, Gorham-Stout disease, and Jansen metaphyseal chondrodysplasia.
- Other Disorders: Osteonecrosis of the jaw, chronic nonbacterial osteitis, Charcot joint disease.
(2) Non-Bone Diseases:
- Cardiovascular: Coronary artery disease, aortic syndromes, and plaque calcification.
- Autoimmune and Inflammatory: Rheumatoid arthritis and systemic sclerosis.
- Sports Medicine: Assessing acute bone stress and injuries.
We also invite reviews or original research articles using [18F]NaF PET for detecting and monitoring calcium buildup in conditions such as pseudoxanthoma elasticum, systemic sclerosis, and aortic valve sclerosis. Additionally, we are interested in applications for plaque calcification in carotid atherosclerosis, microcalcifications in atherosclerotic plaques, and detecting hidden changes in blood vessels. Other areas of focus include assessing bone involvement in rare conditions like Gorham-Stout disease, osteoarthritis, Charcot joint disease in Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, and Jansen metaphyseal chondrodysplasia. [18F]NaF PET is also valuable for detecting synchronous thyroid carcinoma and parathyroid adenoma with brown tumors, the early degeneration of transcatheter aortic valves, and skull-base bone invasion in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Focus Areas:
- New tracers like [18F]NaF, [18F]FDG or other tracers.
- Advancing multi-center research and global collaborations.
- Standardizing imaging protocols and validating biomarkers.
- Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning for automated analysis.
We look forward to your contributions as we explore cutting-edge PET imaging research for better disease diagnosis and management.
Dr. Tanuj Puri
Prof. Dr. Glen Blake
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- PET
- bone metabolism
- bone diseases
- metabolic bone diseases
- image analysis
- radiomics
- artificial intelligence
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