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Use of the Anger Scintillation Camera for Determining Thyroid Uptake

Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, Denver, Colorado

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Fred D. Hofeldt, University of North Dakota, c/o V.A. Hospital, North Elm and 21st Ave., Fargo,N.D. 58102.

ABSTRACT

Nineteen patients, representing a spectrum of thyroid function, were studied. The mean 24-hr thyroid ¹³¹I uptakes determined by a standard counting procedure and by our scintillation camera counting method were 15.0% and 16.4%, respectively, for the entire patient population. The 24-hr ¹³¹I uptakes from these two methods correlated with a coefficient of 0.99. A high degree of correlation between the two methods was found in evaluating euthyroid and hypothyroid patients and a similar finding was noted in the one hyperthyroid patient studied.

FOOTNOTES

^* Present address: Nuclear Medicine Dept., Penrose Hospital, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80907.