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Technetium-99m Antimony Colloid for Bone-Marrow Imaging

Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, Western Australia
University of Western Australia

Correspondence: For reprints contact: J. Harvey Turner, FRACP, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Fremantle Hospital, Box 480, Post Office, Fremantle, 6160 Western Australia.

ABSTRACT

Technetium-99m antimony colloid was prepared in our laboratory for bone-marrow imaging. Optimal production of colloid particles of size range 1–13 nm was achieved by the use of polyvinylpyrrolidone of mol. wt. 44,000. Electron microscopy was used to size the particles. Studies in rabbits showed exclusive concentration in the subendothelial dendritic phagocytes of the bone marrow. Pseudopods from these cells were found to traverse interendothelial junctions and concentrate colloid from the sinusoids. Imaging studies of bone marrow in rabbits showed the superiority of the Tc-99m antimony colloid over the much larger colloidal particles of Tc-99m sulfur colloid. Tissue distribution studies in the rat confirmed that bone-marrow uptake of Tc-99m antimony colloid was greater than that of Tc-99m sulfur coiloid, although blood clearance was much slower.