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SPECT scan — Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, a nuclear medicine procedure in which a gamma camera rotates around the patient and takes pictures from many angles, which a computer then uses to form a tomographic (cross sectional) image. The… … Medical dictionary
SPECT scanning — (in nuclear medicine) a cross sectional imaging technique for observing an organ or part of the body using a gamma camera; images are produced after injecting a radioactive tracer. The camera is rotated around the patient being scanned. Using a… … Medical dictionary
SPECT scanning — single photon emission computing tomography (in nuclear medicine) a cross sectional imaging technique for observing an organ or part of the body using a gamma camera; images are produced after injecting a radioactive tracer. The camera is rotated … The new mediacal dictionary
SPECT — Single photon emission computed tomography. A special type of computed tomography (CT) scan in which a small amount of a radioactive drug is injected into a vein and a scanner is used to make detailed images of areas inside the body where the… … English dictionary of cancer terms
Gallium scan — A gallium scan or gallium 67 scan is a type of nuclear medicine study that uses a radioactive tracer to obtain images of a specific type of tissue, or disease state of tissue. Gallium salts like gallium citrate and gallium nitrate are used. The… … Wikipedia
CEA-Scan — Arcitumomab ist ein Arzneimittel auf der Basis eines murinen monoklonalen Antikörpers, der mit dem Radioisotop Technetium (99m Tc) verbunden ist. Arcitumomab wird als Diagnostikum in der Onkologie eingesetzt. Bei dem Antikörper handelt es sich um … Deutsch Wikipedia
Bone scan — Bone imaging is a study to visually detect bone abnormalities. Such imaging studies include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X ray computed tomography (CT) and especially nuclear medicine. In the latter case the patient is injected with a small… … Wikipedia
ISAS (Ictal-Interictal SPECT Analysis by SPM) — The goal of ictal Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) is to localize the region of seizure onset for epilepsy surgery planning. ISAS (Ictal Interictal SPECT Analysis by SPM) is an objective tool for analyzing ictal vs. interictal… … Wikipedia
Octreotide scan — Diagnostics 111In pentetreotide scintigraphy of the 41 year old man with ectopic Cushing syndrome caused by a neuroendocrine carcinoma of the mesentery. Radiotracer accumulation in the left thyroid in 10/2003 (arrow). The mesenterial… … Wikipedia
PET-Scan — Die Positronen Emissions Tomographie (von altgr. τομή, tome, „Schnitt“ und γράφειν, graphein, „schreiben“), Abkürzung PET, ist ein bildgebendes Verfahren der Nuklearmedizin, das Schnittbilder von lebenden Organismen erzeugt, indem es die… … Deutsch Wikipedia
