Thyroid Imaging - Approaches To Solutions

Karin R. Corey

doi:10.1117/12.954047

1 February 1975 Thyroid Imaging - Approaches To Solutions

Karin R. Corey

Proceedings Volume 0047, Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine III; (1975) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.954047
Event: Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine III, 1974, Kansas City, United States

Abstract

Since the discovery of I-131, thyroid uptake and scanning procodures have been a major radionuclide use in medicine and in part led to the development of the field of Nuclear Medicine. The first method of detection of the distribution of radioiodine in the thyroid was by simply moving a small collimated geiger tube by hand over the neck area and recording the count rate from radioiodine which had become located in the gland 24 hours after ingestion. This was an internationally used technique in the early 1950's. Since then, scanning techniques have developed in various ways and new radionuclides have been taken into use. The clinical demands On the result of scanning are essentially the same now as they were then. This is a review of pertinent aspects of scanning.

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Karin R. Corey "Thyroid Imaging - Approaches To Solutions", Proc. SPIE 0047, Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine III, (1 February 1975); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.954047

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