This chapter reviews tumor scintigraphy using radiopharmaceuticals other than F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), as well as therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals for specific malignancies ( Box 13.1 ). Theranostics is a topic of increasing…
Liver, biliary, and splenic scintigraphy have played an important diagnostic imaging role in patient management since the 1960s. Today’s radiopharmaceuticals have mechanisms of uptake and localization that take advantage of…
Made up of inorganic calcium hydroxyapatite (Ca 10 [PO 4 ] 6 [OH] 2) crystal and an organic matrix of collagen and blood vessels, the skeleton is constantly changing and…
This chapter reinforces concepts presented in this textbook. Students of medicine gather pearls of wisdom from their mentors that may not fit well into a didactic treatment of a subject…
The use of a radionuclide to measure gastric transit was first described in 1966. Radionuclide gastric emptying scintigraphy has long been the standard methodology for measuring gastric transit. In this…
Thyroid Disease—Radionuclide Diagnosis and Therapy In 1941, the first patient was treated for thyroid cancer with radioiodine. Since then, radioiodine has proven invaluable in the assessment of thyroid disorders and…
Introduction: The Ventilation–Perfusion Lung Scan Particles slightly larger than red blood cells can be radiolabeled and injected into a peripheral vein. After passing through the heart and central pulmonary arteries,…
Molecular imaging (MI) allows noninvasive visualization and quantification of functions occurring at the cellular or molecular level. This can involve several different techniques ( Table 5.1 ), but tagging a…
Data Acquisition of Emission Tomographyn Conventional or planar radionuclide imaging suffers a major limitation in the loss of object contrast as a result of background radioactivity. In the planar image,…
An unstable atom that undergoes radioactive decay in order to achieve stability is known as a radionuclide. The radiation these atoms emit can sometimes be used in medical imaging and…
