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  • Thumbnail for Nuclear medicine
    Examples are whole body PET scans or PET/CT scans, gallium scans, indium white blood cell scans, MIBG and octreotide scans. While the ability of nuclear...
    39 KB (4,408 words) - 06:50, 28 May 2024
  • A radionuclide (radioactive nuclide, radioisotope or radioactive isotope) is a nuclide that has excess numbers of either neutrons or protons, giving it...
    31 KB (2,660 words) - 14:00, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Radionuclide angiography
    equilibrium radionuclide angiocardiography, radionuclide ventriculography (RNVG), or gated blood pool imaging, as well as SYMA scanning (synchronized...
    17 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 8 August 2023
  • Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN), a set of psychiatric diagnostic tools by WHO DMSA scan, a radionuclide scan used in kidney studies Medical imaging...
    3 KB (456 words) - 07:41, 16 June 2024
  • leading perfusion scanning for some time, although the modality has certain pitfalls. It is often dubbed 'unclear medicine' as the scans produced may appear...
    17 KB (2,121 words) - 07:59, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for DMSA scan
    A DMSA scan is a radionuclide scan that uses dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) in assessing renal morphology, structure and function. Radioactive technetium-99m...
    4 KB (421 words) - 02:24, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cardiac amyloidosis
    by a gamma camera. Technetium radionuclide scans can now reliably diagnosis cardiac amyloidosis, with certain scanning methods having greater than 99%...
    30 KB (3,368 words) - 04:03, 12 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sestamibi parathyroid scan
    size limitation of the abnormal gland can limit the detection by radionuclide scanning. SPECT (three-dimensional) imaging, as an adjunct to planar methods...
    5 KB (572 words) - 10:37, 15 July 2023
  • fluid leak is CT cisternography. For the diagnosis of a spinal CSF leak radionuclide cisternography also known as radioisotope cisternography is used. The...
    4 KB (452 words) - 04:32, 9 June 2024
  • injection of a radiopharmaceutical with a positron or gamma emitting radionuclide and a prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) targeting ligand. After...
    20 KB (1,816 words) - 13:54, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Positron emission tomography
    clinical PET scanning is the carbohydrate derivative FDG. This radiotracer is used in essentially all scans for oncology and most scans in neurology,...
    72 KB (8,693 words) - 02:04, 17 June 2024
  • fever of unknown origin. Gallium-68 DOTA scans are increasingly replacing octreotide scans (a type of indium-111 scan using octreotide as a somatostatin receptor...
    34 KB (3,572 words) - 04:34, 20 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hot nose sign
    Radionuclide scan showing no intracranial blood flow. The hot nose sign is manifest....
    990 bytes (85 words) - 01:52, 19 July 2023
  • diagnostic scans. The most common isotope used in diagnostic scans is Technetium-99m, used in approximately 85% of all nuclear medicine diagnostic scans worldwide...
    2 KB (217 words) - 16:32, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Testicular torsion
    diagnosis. It can also help distinguish torsion from epididymitis. Radionuclide scanning (scintigraphy) of the scrotum is the most accurate imaging technique...
    29 KB (3,255 words) - 18:45, 19 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Single-photon emission computed tomography
    structures", a SPECT scan monitors level of biological activity at each place in the 3-D region analyzed. Emissions from the radionuclide indicate amounts...
    22 KB (2,663 words) - 17:01, 1 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bone scintigraphy
    Bone scintigraphy (redirect from Bone scan)
    diagnostic value. In these cases CT or MRI scans are preferred for diagnosis and staging. In a typical bone scan technique, the patient is injected (usually...
    17 KB (1,823 words) - 16:13, 14 November 2023
  • if the diagnosis is to be made on EEG criteria. Also, a radionuclide cerebral blood flow scan that shows complete absence of intracranial blood flow must...
    24 KB (2,785 words) - 21:29, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scintigraphy
    actively. Examples are gallium scans, indium white blood cell scans, iobenguane scan (MIBG) and octreotide scans. The MIBG scan detects adrenergic tissue and...
    12 KB (1,239 words) - 18:50, 17 May 2024
  • the basis of a variety of imaging systems, such as, PET scans, SPECT scans and technetium scans. Radiocarbon dating uses the naturally occurring carbon-14...
    19 KB (2,378 words) - 14:21, 5 June 2024
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