biomedicines Review Molecular Imaging of Inflammatory Disease Meredith A. Jones 1,2, William M. MacCuaig 1,2, Alex N. Frickenstein 1,2, Seda Camalan 3 , Metin N. Gurcan 3, Jennifer Holter-Chakrabarty 2,4, Katherine T. Morris 2,5 , Molly W. McNally 2, Kristina K. Booth 2,5, Steven Carter 2,5, William E. Grizzle 6 and Lacey R. McNally 2,5,* 1 Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA;
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[email protected] Abstract: Inflammatory diseases include a wide variety of highly prevalent conditions with high mortality rates in severe cases ranging from cardiovascular disease, to rheumatoid arthritis, to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, to graft vs. host disease, to a number of gastrointestinal disorders. Many diseases that are not considered inflammatory per se are associated with varying levels of inflammation.