Nuclear medicine in the pediatric chest.
Nuclear medicine enables functional evaluation of organ systems not possible with standard anatomic imaging modalities. The pathophysiology necessitating scintigraphic examination of the pediatric patient is often different from that in the adult and therefore calls for new or modified applications of nuclear medicine. This article briefly reviews such application, with the scope limited to the evaluation of the pediatric chest and organ systems.
Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
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