Combined Scintigraphic and Radiographic Diagnosis of Bone and Joint Diseases
Including Gamma Correction Interpretation
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CTMF (callused trabecular microfracture) ubiquitously occurs in osteoporosis (Vernon-Roberts and Pirie 1973), contusion (Mandalia and Henson 2008), aseptic osteonecrosis (McFarland and Frost 1961), inflammator...
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As anticipated the shape and size of trabecular fracture widely vary presenting as pinpoint, speckle, rod-like, archipelagic, geographic, and amorphously crushed tracer uptake. Indeed, some are large and some ...
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Computed tomography (CT) consists of an X-ray generator, X-ray detector, and computerized imaging and recording systems. The latest model of multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) uses a rotating fan anode o...
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Bone marrow edema (BME), bone marrow hemorrhage (BMH), and trabecular microfracture (TMF) comprise a basic triad of bone marrow pathologies ubiquitously incited by trauma, sports, osteoporosis, inflammation, i...
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99mTc-HDP (hydroxymethylene diphosphonate) pinhole bone scanning is an ordinary bone imaging technique upgraded by the additional use of a 4-mm aperture pinhole collimator (Bahk et al. 1987; Kim et al. 1999). How...
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During the recent years, we published some articles on gamma correction medical imaging, gamma correction 99mTc-HDP pinhole bone scan (GCPBS) in particular, for the specific diagnosis of callused trabecular micro...
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Gamma correction 99mTc-HDP pinhole bone scan can uniquely demonstrate CTMF along with bone metabolic profile. The smallest CTMF imaged on gamma correction pinhole bone scan measures 200 μm in size and this size i...
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Recently, we developed two kinds of different size-measurement method of the 99mTc-HDP uptake in CTMF. One is the mathematic size quantitation of micro-uptake formed in a gamma correction pinhole scan phantom (Ju...
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Julius Wolff stated in 1892 that “Every change in the form and function of bone or of their function alone is followed by certain definite changes in their internal architecture, and equally definite alteratio...
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Presumably due to rapid, astonishing development of sophisticated modern imaging means such as MRI and MDCT the golden valued conventional radiography seemed to have become unimportantly treated and left behin...
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As well-known medical imaging science was naturally born in the moment of the discovery of X-ray by W. C. Röntgen in November of 1895 in Würzburg and decades afterward it was followed by the clinical nuclear m...
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Bone marrow edema (BME), bone marrow hemorrhage (BMH) and trabecular microfracture (TMF) are the essential triad of alive marrow bone changes, which homeostatically occur in trauma, sports injuries, osteoporos...
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One day before surgery both conventional radiography and 99mTc-HDP pinhole bone scan were taken in order to anatomically and biochemically confirm the diagnosis of acute femoral neck fracture and thereby resulted...
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The excelled usefulness of gamma correction 99mTc-HDP pinhole bone scan for the imaging and diagnosis of callused trabecular microfracture (CTMF) has been well demonstrated and discussed. Now in succession, the s...
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Callused trabecular microfracture (CTMF) ubiquitously occurs in osteoporosis (Vernon-Roberts and Pirie 1973), bone contusion [Mandalia and Henson], aseptic bone necrosis (McFarland and Frost 1961), inflammator...
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Gamma correction is a nonlinear image processing algorithm to code and decode the luminance (gray) or tristimulus (color) values in a still image or video system for specific purposes (Holst 1998). The nonline...
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Currently, traumatic bone diseases are diagnosed by assessing the micro 99mTc-hydroxymethylene diphosphonate (HDP) uptake in injured trabeculae with ongoing osteoneogenesis demonstrated by gamma correction pinhol...
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Including Gamma Correction Interpretation
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Bone scintigraphy has traditionally been considered to be not as useful as radiography in the study of metabolic bone diseases including senile or postmenopausal osteoporosis, osteodystrophy, drug-induced oste...
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Except for acute trauma such as fracture, contusion or sprain, and physical injury such as electric or thermal burn or freezing, the damage to cells in disease starts at the molecular or chemical level followe...