Comprehensive Flashcards
Type of radionuclide: spleen > liver
WBC (very low counts)
Type of radionuclide: liver = spleen
Sulfur colloid
Type of radionuclide: spleen
Gallium (Also shows bowel)
Type of radionuclide: Heart and kidneys seen
MIBI
Type of radionuclide: liver without kidneys or bones
MIBG
Type of radionuclide: very hot spleen and kidneys
octreotide (has very high counts)
Tag for WBCs
In-111
Type of radionuclide: bones and lacrimal glands visible
gallium or free Tc
Type of radionuclide: lacrimal glands visible without bones
Sulfur colloid, WBCs
When to image Tc-WBCs
4 hours (too much lung) vs. 24 hours (too much bowel)
Tc-WBCs vs. In-WBCs
Indium shows no renal or GI
MDP dose
20 mCi +/- 5
Timing for delayed images in MDP
2-4 hours
MDP mechanism
Chemisorption (phosphate binding)
HDP is AKA
Tc-MDP
F-18 vs. FDG with increased bone uptake
FDG shows brain activity
Skull sutures very bright on MDP
renal osteodystrophy
Unilateral breast activity on MDP
mastitis or cancer
Bilateral breast activity on MDP
Lactating
Very bright renal activity on MDP
chemotherapy
Liver seen on MDP (3 things)
- Aluminum contamination
- Malignancy
- Amyloidosis
Spleen on MDP
Sickle cell disease
Probability that single bright bone lesion on MDP is cancer:
15-20%
Decreased skeletal uptake on MDP
Dose issue or bisphosphonates
Flair phenomenon for bony mets (timing)
Starts at 2 weeks, ends at 3 months.
X-rays show increasing sclerosis.
PSA threshold for bone scan
PSA
Radionuclide of choice for bone mets in neuroblastoma
MIBG
Alternative to MDP for lytic mets
skeletal survey
Double density on bone scan
Osteoid osteoma
Hot mandible on MDP
Fibrous dysplasia
Mature heterotopic ossification on MDP
cold lesion
Hot AVN on MDP
repairing (middle phase)
Metabolic vs. metastatic superscan
Metabolic = hotter skull and extremities
Nuc Med for spine
Gallium
Nuc med for bowel
WBC
Positive WBC/Sulfur Colloid study
Hot on WBC, cold on colloid
Prosthetic loosening (Rule in)
Sulfur Colloid/WBC
Prosthetic loosening (rule out)
3 phase bone scan
When to do 4th phase bone scan
PAD or diabetes (slower blood pool clearance)
Tc-HMPAO WBC over In-WBC
Children
Small body parts (hands/feet)
Xe-133 physical Halflife
5.3 days
Xe-133 biological halflife
30 seconds (not absorbed)
Xe-133 energy
80 keV
In V/Q, which performed first?
Ventilation
Size of MAA in VQ
10-100 micrometers (capillary = 10 micrometers)