Library of
Radiopharmaceutical Images
This page is under construction. It will
contain images obtained from the University of Kentucky Nuclear Medicine
Department along with the case description/interpretation as well as links to
other nuclear medicine images. If you have any images that you would like to
contribute to this page, please send them to jay@pop.uky.edu.
Brain Images (Non-PET)
Links to Other Brain Scintigraphic
Images and Cases
Evaluate for brain death
No spontaneous respirations, evaluate brain perfusion
Cisternography Cases
76-year-old woman with mild dementia, ataxia, and urinary incontinence
CSF Shunt Scintigraphy Cases
The patient is being evaluated for possible shunt malfunction
Other Interesting Links
Atlas of Brain
SPECT, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Head images (UMDS)
Skeletal Images
Links to Other Bone Scintigraphic
Images and Cases
11-year-old boy with a one month history of right knee pain
65-year-old man with newly diagnosed prostate cancer
Dropped a steel drawer on her left foot 3 months ago
79-year-old woman who noted the relatively acute
onset of left knee pain without antecedent trauma
35-year-old woman with wrist and hand pain, being evaluated with bone
scintigraphy to determine pattern of joint involvement
54-year-old man with low back pain
19-year-old male with a six month history of Hodgkin's disease
20-year-old man on steroids with back/hip pain
Evaluate for metastatic disease
24-year-old man with left hip pain
65-year-old male with laryngeal carcinoma
Elderly woman with pelvic pain
8-month-old boy who presented initially with constipation
74-year-old woman with chronic left ankle pain and no known history of
trauma
63-year -ld woman with a one month history of lower back pain
33-year-old woman with a three month history of left medial clavicular
pain
Status post trauma
Increasing right leg pain
Decreased ambulation on the lower left extremity
Worsening right knee pain
Painful palpable mass in the right anterior iliac region
25-year-old woman with complaints of low back and left knee pain for
one year
History withheld
71-year-old gentleman with back pain
Evaluate for metastatic disease
Rising PSA level
45-year-old man with diffuse aches, pains, and arthralgias
29-year-old man with left knee pain for several weeks
Breast carcinoma, rule out osseous metastatic disease
Neck pain for two weeks
70-year-old woman with history of ovarian carcinoma
72-year-old man with a history of C3-5 laminectomy and
pseudomeningocele, now presents with a history of fever and mental status
changes
Intermittent back pain for three months
33-year-old woman with history of breast carcinoma and known osseous
metastatic disease
74-year-old woman with back pain an elevated serum alkaline phosphatase
level
Heel ulcerations, evaluate for bone infection
Low back/pelvic pain
This patient has continued leg soreness after minor trauma
approximately three months previous
17-year-old girl with biopsy-proved left
maxillary osteosarcoma
17-year-old male with fatigue, weight loss, and fever
Lung Images (Ventilation and
Perfusion)
Normal lung
Pulmonary Embolism
Links to Other Pulmonary Images and
Cases
39-year-old female who underwent bilateral lung transplantation and
repair of a VSD three days ago
6-year-old status post prior repair of Tetralogy of Fallot
Progressively SOB, rule out PE
Chest pain, question pulmonary embolism
Shortness of breath
Shortness of breath
Acute onset of shortness of breath
7-year-old boy with history of previous pneumonia
66-year-old man with stage IV esophageal carcinoma admitted with right
pleuritic flank pain
43-year-old woman with pulmonary hypertension
Shortness of breath
18-year-old male patient with sickle-cell anemia who presented with
chest pain
Myocardial Images
Heart Patient #30
Links to Other Myocardial Images and
Cases
Myocardial Imaging Cases
Rule out ischemia prior to ECT therapy
This patient is a 54 year old woman being evaluated with myocardial
imaging as part of pre- operative assessment
Evaluate for myocardial ischemia
78-year-old man with heart failure
69-year-old smoker with atypical chest pain
Substernal chest pain
Perfusion (only) Scintigraphy Cases
39-year-old female who underwent bilateral lung transplantation and
repair of a VSD three days ago
6-year-old status post prior repair of Tetralogy of Fallot
Cardiac Blood Pool Scintigraphy Cases
66-year-old woman with history of cardiac disease who presents with
worsening congestive heart failure
Liver Images
Links to Other Liver/Spleen Images and
Cases
This patient is a 60 year old man being evaluated for possible
splenomegaly
Liver abnormality on computed tomography
48-year-old Vietnam veteran who suffered a shrapnel injury in 1969
requiring thoracoabdominal incision; now with nodules on chest radiograph
Hepatic Blood Pool Scintigraphy Cases
66-year-old man with right upper abdominal pain
Hepatobiliary Images
Links to Other Hepatobiliary Images
and Cases
2-month-old boy with new onset acholic stools and elevated GGT
Abdominal pain following T-tube removal
Abdominal pain
Renal Images
Links to Other Renal Images and Cases
This is a 60-year-old man with hypertension undergoing evaluation for
renal artery stenosis
33-year-old man with slowly increasing creatinine
Status post renal transplant with recent worsening of function
Past history of colon cancer
Patient with vesicoureteral reflux, evaluate for renal scarring
Thyroid Images
Links to Other Thyroid Images and
Cases
26-year-old woman with hyperthyroidism
Patient is status post thyroidectomy for papillary carcinoma with
follicular variant
This patient has a known history of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid
with diffuse metastatic disease to the lung
Images of Inflammatory Processes
Links to 111In-WBC and 67Ga Images
Indium-111 WBC Scintigraphy Cases
History of splenic abscess, now with enterobacter septicemia raising
the question of recurrent abscess
73-year-old woman with fevers and an elevated white blood cell count
Peritoneal dialysis
Abdominal bloating
Gallium Scintigraphy Cases
Patient with lymphoma being evaluated for recurrence
Homosexual male with fever
45-year-old man being evaluated to rule out metastatic disease
36-year-old HIV- positive man presents with persistent fevers
Lymphoscintigraphy
Lymphoscintigraphy:
Description and Cases
SPECT Cases and Videos
Case Presentations
in Brain SPECT and MUGA scans
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