Nuclear medicine diagnosis--principles and indications
Schicha, H.
Zeitschrift für Arztliche Fortbildung und Qualitatssicherung 91(4): 335-340
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 1431-7621 PMID: 9340203 Document Number: 475018
Diagnostic procedures in nuclear medicine are functional studies of localized processes. The gathered informations are generally different to those acquired by imaging methods such as ultrasound and x-ray. Frequently, both methods are complementary. This review provides survey about the scintigraphic diagnostic procedures of following organs: Endocrine organs, especially the thyroid gland; heart, especially myocardial perfusion and viability, functional studies of the kidney, lung ventilation and perfusion, bone, bone marrow and inflammation, brain, gastrointestinal tract diagnostics and tumour scintigraphy.