title: [Nuclear medicine diagnosis--principles and indications].
abstract: Diagnostic procedures in nuclear medicine are functional studies of localized processes. The gathered informations are generally different to those acquired by imaging methods such as ultrasound and x-ray. Frequently, both methods are complementary. This review provides survey about the scintigraphic diagnostic procedures of following organs: Endocrine organs, especially the thyroid gland; heart, especially myocardial perfusion and viability, functional studies of the kidney, lung ventilation and perfusion, bone, bone marrow and inflammation, brain, gastrointestinal tract diagnostics and tumour scintigraphy.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin, Universität zu Köln.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schicha
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed / Q000295:instrumentation; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000295:instrumentation