title: Utility of Iodine-131 hybrid SPECT-CT fusion imaging before high-dose radioiodine therapy in papillary thyroid carcinoma.
abstract: The management protocol for differentiated thyroid cancer includes whole body iodine-131 imaging, to detect residual thyroid tissue and distant metastasis, after thyroidectomy. However, the diagnostic dose of radioiodine may fail to detect the non-functioning or poorly functioning metastasis. We present a case where hybrid single photon-emission computed tomographic and computed tomographic (SPECT-CT) fusion imaging, using a diagnostic dose of iodine-131, was able to detect both functioning as well as non-functioning pulmonary metastases, prior to high-dose radioiodine therapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: Anish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhattacharya
authors.forename: Sunil Hejjaji
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Venkataramarao
authors.forename: Chandra Sekhar
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Bal
authors.forename: Bhagwant Rai
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Mittal