This report summarizes 10 yr of experience with 18 F for bone scanning. The fluoride ion is
rapidly taken up by an exchange process with bone which is a function of blood flow and …

excerpt With recent advances in instrumentation (1) and the development of new localizing
materials, isotope scanning has been applied to the visualization of lesions of the thyroid, …

… organs with diagnostic doses was demonstrated by Bender.4 A versatile, high contrast
photos canner for the localization of tumors in human organs was designed by Bender and Blau.…

To determine the clinical usefulness of liver scintiscanning in detecting metastatic disease
of the liver, 1,424 liver studies performed on 1,115 patients were reviewed along with their …

Isotope scanning permits the non-traumatic localization of several types of human tumors.
To obtain satisfactory visualization, a scanner must be capable of resolving small differences …

TN recent years subtotal gastrectomy has, for the majority of surgeons, come to be accepted
as the surgical treatment of choice for peptic ulceration of the stomach and duodenum. In …

PARTHASARATHY, KOMEREK, QUAIN, BAKSHI, QURESHI, SHIMAOKA, RAO, ADAMSKI,
AND BENDER the ensuing 48 hr, he excreted only 1.1% of the admin istered dose in the …

METHODS The Department of Nuclear Medicine, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo,
NY performed Hg-203 chlormerodrin renal scans upon 78 patients who previously had …

From December 15, 1975 to June 16, 1980, 20 evaluable patients with International
Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics Stage I invasive adenocarcinoma of the ovary were …

A gallium scan performed on a patient with fever of unknown origin (FUO) revealed an abnormal
uptake of radiotracer in the lungs despite negative chest roentgenographic examination …