In 1966, Griffith et al. used “a standard breakfast of ordinary food” labeled with chromium-51 to report the first use of gastric emptying scintigraphy (GES). As the procedure was refined over the ...

An adult lymphoma patient developed Cushing syndrome after short-term, high-dose dexamethasone administration and presented with a distinctive Cushingoid fat redistribution pattern and associated ...

Thyroid follicular epithelial cell–derived cancer includes papillary carcinoma, follicular carcinoma, Hürthle cell carcinoma, poorly differentiated thyroid cancer, and anaplastic thyroid carcinoma.

Starting in December 2019, the world faced an unprecedented infectious disease situation unlike anything experienced in modern times (1). The disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by ...

Since its inception in 1966, nuclear medicine gastric emptying scintigraphy (GES) has evolved to demonstrate significant interinstitutional protocol variation (1,2). Lack of protocol consistency ...

“As an AI language model, ChatGPT can be useful in developing patient information for nuclear medicine procedures as part of informed consent. With its vast knowledge base and natural language ...

Given the close interpersonal nature of the student–clinical instructor (CI) relationship and the unpredictable and often stressful clinical environment in which they interact with one another, it is ...

The diagnostic reference level (DRL) is a patient-exposure optimization tool used to evaluate and provide guidance for radiation doses in medical imaging. In the past few decades, there has been a ...

The emergence of transmission imaging technologies within hybrid imaging systems can be used in conjunction with SPECT techniques to help localize lesions identified within traditional nuclear ...

We present a patient with spleen uptake on bone scanning that was due to sickle cell disease. We also discuss other etiologies for this finding. It is not uncommon to see incidental uptake of ...

Many benign bone lesions mimic skeletal metastases from thyroid cancer on imaging and even may have high metabolic uptake on 18 F-FDG PET/CT. It becomes crucial to distinguish these hypermetabolic ...

The primary clinical indication for Technegas ventilation is in conjunction with 99m Tc-macroaggregated albumin perfusion lung imaging to evaluate suspected pulmonary embolism. In addition, Technegas ...