99mTc-HDP SPECT With CT Myelography in a 1-Step Procedure
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Olivier Rager; Steve Durante; Gaël Amzalag; Sven Haller; Enrico Tessitore
- Source
- Clinical Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 41, No 1 (2016) pp. 74-75
- Subject
- Nerve root compression
Multimodal Imaging
ddc:616.0757
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Radiculopathy
Myelography
Patient comfort
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
Multimodal imaging
Diphosphonates
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Radiation dose
Organotechnetium Compounds
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Acquisition Protocol
ddc:616.8
Ct myelography
Pseudarthrosis
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Female
Radiopharmaceuticals
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
business
Nuclear medicine
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0363-9762
We present the case of a 45-year-old woman with a history of multiple back surgeries to illustrate the feasibility of combining CT myelography (myeloCT) and 99mTc-HDP SPECT/CT bone scan in a 1-step procedure to realize a combined SPECT-myeloCT. Myelography CT and SPECT/CT were required to assess nerve root compression and pseudarthrosis, respectively. The proposed combined acquisition protocol provides information about nervous compression as well as pseudarthrosis in a 1 examination, optimizing radiation dose and patient comfort.