Radionuclide Diagnostics

Understand the radionuclide diagnostics procedure: when it is recommended, how it is done, safety, and how results are reported.

Radioisotope diagnostics in urology: when is it used?

Modern medical disciplines are impossible without collaboration with related specialties, especially diagnostic ones. Successful treatment and its prognosis largely depend on the quality and accuracy of diagnostic tests.

Angiography of the brain and spinal cord: vascular diagnostics

Angiography is a method for examining the vascular system of the brain and spinal cord by injecting a contrast agent into the arteries supplying the brain. It was first proposed by Monitz in 1927, but its widespread use in clinical practice only began in the 1940s.

Thermography: diagnostics using body temperature mapping

Medical thermography is a method of recording the natural thermal radiation of the human body in the invisible infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Thermography determines a characteristic "thermal" pattern across all areas of the body. In a healthy person, this pattern is relatively constant, but changes under pathological conditions.

Clinical radiometry: measurement of radioactivity in medicine

Clinical radiometry is the measurement of radioactivity in the whole body or a portion of it after administration of a radiopharmaceutical. Gamma-emitting radionuclides are typically used in clinical practice.

Single-photon emission tomography: possibilities of the method

Single-photon emission tomography (SPET) is gradually replacing conventional static scintigraphy, as it allows for better spatial resolution with the same amount of radiopharmaceutical, allowing for the detection of significantly smaller areas of organ damage—hot and cold nodules. Special gamma cameras are used to perform SPET.

Scintigraphy: what it shows and how it is performed

Scintigraphy is the production of images of a patient's organs and tissues by recording the radiation emitted by an incorporated radionuclide on a gamma camera.

Radionuclide diagnostics: methods and indications

The distance between physics laboratories, where scientists recorded the tracks of nuclear particles, and everyday clinical practice seemed depressingly long. The very idea of using nuclear physics phenomena to examine patients might have seemed, if not crazy, then at least a fairy tale. However, precisely such an idea was born in the experiments of the Hungarian scientist D. Hevesy, later a Nobel laureate.

Pages