The Role of Nuclear Medicine in The Diagnosis and Management of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules

Shariati, Farzaneh; Hosseinnezhad, Toktam; Aryana, Kamran; Zakavi, Seyed Rasoul; Fattahi, Asieh Sadat; Tehrani, Donya Farrokh; Sadri, Keyvan; Sadeghi, Ramin

doi:10.22038/jctm.2013.1890

The Role of Nuclear Medicine in The Diagnosis and Management of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules

Document Type : Review Article

Authors

Farzaneh Shariati ¹

Toktam Hosseinnezhad ¹

Kamran Aryana ¹

Seyed Rasoul Zakavi ¹

Asieh Sadat Fattahi ²

Donya Farrokh Tehrani ³

Keyvan Sadri ¹

Ramin Sadeghi ¹

¹ Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

² Minimally Invasive and Endoscopic Surgery Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

³ Radiology department, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

10.22038/jctm.2013.1890

Abstract

Solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN) is a frequent finding on the chest x-ray and computed tomography. Nuclear medicine techniques play an important role in the diagnosis and management of SPN. In the current review, we briefly will explain the different nuclear medicine modalities in this regard including positron emission tomography (PET) using 18-F-FDG, and 11-C-Methionine, and single photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) using somatostatin receptor scintigraphy, 201-Thallium, and 99m-Tc-MIBI.

Keywords

FDG

PET

Scintigraphy Receptor

Somatostatin