%0 Thesis %A Crean, Dermot M. %D 2017 %T Parametric imaging in the evaluation of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs %U https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/thesis/Parametric_imaging_in_the_evaluation_of_non-steroidal_anti-inflammatory_drugs/9616544 %2 https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/ndownloader/files/17264138 %K untagged %K Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified %X The major difficulty in clinical assessment of patients with inflammatory disease, and in the evaluation of consequent anti-inflammatory drug treatment has hitherto been the impossibility of quantifying the inflammatory process. Clinical methods have proved too rough and ready, with unacceptable levels of error even with so-called objective measurements, while laboratory investigation by scintigraphy has been of only limited value since it has previously evolved around static imaging. [Continues.] %I Loughborough University