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Nuclear Medicine/Infection
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Infection
Popular Imaging Agents
99mTc-Medronate (MDP)
Indium labeled WBCs
Gallium-67
99mTc-Sulfur Colloid
99mTc-MDP
Experimental Imaging Agents
18F-FTG PET
99mTc-Fanolesomab
Immunocompromised Infection
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Fever of Unknown Origin
Post Transplant/Operative
Cardiac
Scintography of post heart transplant infections have not been extensively studied, however, Gallium, Indium-111 WBC, and Tc99m HMPAO have been used.
16485569 -- "Value of radionuclide studies in cardiac transplantation." (Flotats A, Carrió I. 2005 Ann Nucl Med. 2006 Jan;20(1):13-21.)
Central Nervous System
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Cardiovascular
Also see above "Post Transplant/Operative" - Cardiac
Osteomyelitis
The Diabetic Patient
Appendicitis
LewieckiSAMPLE 19426925 - "2008 Santa Fe Bone Symposium: update on osteoporosis." Lewiecki EM, Baim S, Bilezikian JP, Eastell R, LeBoff MS, Miller PD. (J Clin Densitom. 2009 Apr-Jun;12(2):135-57.)
Acronyms used:
MDP - Medronate or
18F-FTG PET - (18)Fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography