Content Areas
What's Covered
Organized by organ system — the way you think about it at the reading station.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Disclaimer: These materials serve as general educational guidelines only.
Institutions and providers may differ in their specific practices.
Nothing here replaces proper medical training or clinical judgment.