Simultaneous visualization of multiple radionuclides in vivo.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
The insufficient energy and spatial resolutions of radionuclide imaging with conventional scintillation detectors restrict the visualization of multiple radionuclides and of microstructures in tissue. Here we report the development and performance of an imaging system equipped with a cadmium telluride diode detector that achieves an energy resolution of 1.7% at 140 keV and a spatial resolution of 250 μm. The combination of high-resolution spectra fitted to an X-ray analysis model of the emission lines of the radionuclides in a chosen energy band allowed us to accurately determine individual radiation activities from three radionuclides to simultaneously visualize thyroid tissue (via intravenously administered iodine-125), mandibular lymph nodes (via the intramuscular injection of indium-111) and parotid lymph nodes (via a subcutaneous injection of technetium-99m) in mice. Multi-radionuclide imaging may find advantageous applications in biomedical imaging.
Medical subject headings
- Technetium