Study of the influence of patient hydration in bone Scintigraphy

• Author(s): Ferreira, S. ; Cunha, L. ; Fonseca, A. ; Vieira, Domingos ; Lemos, Joana ; Matias, M. ; Osorio, S. ; Soares, S. ; Silva, J. A. ; Amorim, M. I. ; Castro, R. ; Metelo, Luís Francisco
• Date: 2009
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/26554
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Subject(s): Bone Scintigraphy; Nuclear Medicine
• Document Type: Conference object
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): REPOSITÓRIO P.PORTO

Description

Bone Scintigraphy is a noninvasive and very sensitive Nuclear Medicine diagnostic method in detecting early bone lesions. Between the important technical details to consider when dealing with patient preparation there is the hydration level.