[SPECT/CT diagnostics for skeletal infections].
OBJECTIVE
Skeletal infections are often a diagnostic and clinical challenge.


METHODS
Nuclear imaging modalities used in the diagnostic workup of acute and chronic skeletal infections include three-phase bone scintigraphy and scintigraphy with labelled leucocytes.


METHODS
The introduction of hybrid technologies, such as single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) has dramatically changed nuclear medical imaging of infections.


METHODS
In general SPECT/CT leads to a considerably more accurate diagnosis than planar or SPECT imaging.


RESULTS
Given the integrated acquisition of metabolic, functional and morphological information, SPECT/CT has increased in particular the specificity of three-phase skeletal scanning and scintigraphy with labeled leucocytes.
Universitätsklinik für Nuklearmedizin, Inselspital Bern, Freiburgstr. 10, CH-3010, Bern, Schweiz. bernd.klaeser@insel.ch
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D001850:Bone Diseases, Infectious / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D064847:Multimodal Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed