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Reading Material
for residents rotating in Nuclear Medicine at Houston VA


DEXA Scan

Lentle BC and Prior JC. Osteoporosis: What a Clinician Expects to Learn from a Patient’s Bone Density Examination. Radiology 2003; 228:620–628.

MDP Bone Scan

Love C et al. Radionuclide Bone Imaging: An Illustrative Review. RadioGraphics 2003; 23:341–358.

Myocardial Perfusion SPECT Scan
("Nuclear Cardiac Stress Test")

Burrell S and MacDonald A. Artifacts and Pitfalls in Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. J. Nucl. Med. Technol. 2006;34:193-211.

Dvorak RA et al. Interpretation of SPECT/CT Myocardial Perfusion Images: Common Artifacts and Quality Control Techniques. RadioGraphics 2011; 31:2041–2057.

OctreoScan and MIBG Scan

Intenzo CM et al. Scintigraphic Imaging of Body Neuroendocrine Tumors. RadioGraphics 2007; 27:1355–1369.

Infection Imaging with Radionuclides

Palesto CJ. Radionuclide Imaging of Osteomyelitis. Semin Nucl Med 2015; 45:32-46.

Love C and Palestro CJ. Radionuclide Imaging of Inflammation and Infection in the Acute Care Setting. Semin Nucl Med 2013; 43:102-113.

Palestro CJ. FDG-PET in Musculoskeletal Infections. 2013; Semin Nucl Med 43:367-376. 
Palestro CJ et al. Combined Labeled Leukocyte and Technetium 99m Sulfur Colloid Bone Marrow Imaging for Diagnosing Musculoskeletal Infection. RadioGraphics 2006; 26: 859–870.

Parathyroid Scan

Eslamy HK and Ziessman ZA. Parathyroid Scintigraphy in Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism: 99mTc Sestamibi SPECT and SPECT/CT. RadioGraphics 2008; 28:1461–1476.

Thyroid Scan & Upatke

Intenzo CM et al. Scintigraphic Manifestations of Thyrotoxicosis. RadioGraphics 2003; 23:857–869.


FDG PET/CT for Oncology

Kapoor V et al. An Introduction to PET-CT Imaging. RadioGraphics 2004; 24:523–543.

NaF PET/CT for Skeletal Assessment

Bastawrous S et al. Newer PET Application with an Old Tracer: Role of 18F-NaF Skeletal PET/CT in Oncologic Practice. RadioGraphics 2014; 34: 1295–1316.

Dotatate PET/CT for Neuroendocrine Tumor

Hofman MS et al. Somatostatin Receptor Imaging with 68Ga DOTATATE PET/CT: Clinical Utility, Normal Patterns, Pearls, and Pitfalls in Interpretation. RadioGraphics 2015; 35:500–516.

Myocardial Perfusion PET/CT

Di Carli MF and Murthy VL. Cardiac PET/CT for the Evaluation of Known or Suspected Coronary Artery Disease. RadioGraphics 2011; 31: 1239-1254.

I-131 Therapy for Hyperthyroidism

Iagaru A and McDougall IR. Treatment of Thyrotoxicosis. J Nucl Med 2007; 48:379–389.

RSNA Journals Section on NM and PET

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