Use of the Anger scintillation camera for determining thyroid uptake.
Nineteen patients, representing a spectrum of thyroid function, were studied. The mean 24-hr thyroid 131I uptakes determined by a standard counting procedure and by our scintillation camera counting method were 15.0% and 16.4%, respectively, for the entire patient population. The 24-hr 131I uptakes from these two methods correlated with a coefficient of 0.99. A high degree of correlation between the two methods was found in evaluating euthyroid and hypothyroid patients and a similar finding was noted in the one hyperthyroid patient studied.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006980:Hyperthyroidism / Q000175:diagnosis; D007037:Hypothyroidism / Q000175:diagnosis; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012588:Scintillation Counting; D013960:Thyroid Function Tests / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014915:Whole-Body Counting
D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes