Current Orthopaedics
Volume 19, Issue 1 , Pages 34-39, February 2005

(v) Basic science: nuclear medicine in skeletal imaging

  • Michele Calleja

      Affiliations

    • Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, UK
    • ,
  • Adeeb Alam

      Affiliations

    • Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, UK
    • ,
  • David Wilson

      Affiliations

    • Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LD, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +441865227337; fax: +441865227347.
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  • Kevin Bradley

      Affiliations

    • John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

Summary 

Radiopharmaceutical agents are used for a variety of diagnostic purposes; their application to musculoskeletal imaging provides a powerful diagnostic tool for the detection and analysis of abnormal bone metabolism.

Keywords: Nuclear medicine, Musculoskeletal, Physics

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PII: S0268-0890(05)00010-1

doi:10.1016/j.cuor.2005.01.009

Current Orthopaedics
Volume 19, Issue 1 , Pages 34-39, February 2005

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