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Musculoskeletal
Bone Scintigraphy
Three-phase bone scan, metastatic disease, Paget's, stress fractures, superscan, photopenic lesions, and the artifacts that fool you.
Tc-99m MDP ¹⁸F-NaF PET
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Endocrine
Thyroid & Parathyroid
I-123 thyroid scan, hot and cold nodules, RAI therapy for Graves' and cancer, post-thyroidectomy whole body scan, sestamibi parathyroid.
I-123 I-131 Tc-99m Sestamibi
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Cardiac
Myocardial Perfusion & SPECT
MPI interpretation, fixed vs reversible defects, attenuation artifacts, gated SPECT, EF assessment, and ATTR amyloid pyrophosphate scan.
Tc-99m Sestamibi Tc-99m PYP Tl-201
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Genitourinary
Renal Scintigraphy
MAG3 and DTPA renograms, obstruction vs non-obstruction, differential renal function, renovascular hypertension, renal transplant evaluation.
Tc-99m MAG3 Tc-99m DTPA Tc-99m DMSA
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GI / Hepatic
Hepatobiliary & GI
HIDA scan, biliary atresia, acute cholecystitis, bile leak, GI bleeding scan, Meckel's diverticulum, hepatic hemangioma.
Tc-99m HIDA Tc-99m RBC Tc-99m Pertechnetate
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Pulmonary
V/Q Lung Scan
V/Q for PE diagnosis, PIOPED criteria, matched vs mismatched defects, CTEPH evaluation, pre-surgical lung function assessment.
Tc-99m MAA Xe-133 Tc-99m DTPA aerosol
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Infection & Inflammation
Infection Imaging
WBC scan, osteomyelitis, prosthetic joint infection, fever of unknown origin, In-111 leukocyte scintigraphy, Ga-67 scan.
In-111 WBC Ga-67 Tc-99m HMPAO WBC
Neuroendocrine
MIBG Scintigraphy
Pheochromocytoma, paraganglioma, neuroblastoma staging and therapy, Curie score, MIBG avidity as theranostic marker for ¹³¹I-MIBG therapy.
¹²³I-MIBG ¹³¹I-MIBG
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