Dual isotope SPECT in the evaluation of recurrent brain tumor

Clin Nucl Med. 1992 Aug;17(8):663-4. doi: 10.1097/00003072-199208000-00012.

Abstract

Dual isotope brain SPECT was performed in a patient with recurrent brain tumor (grade II astrocytoma). In this case, a good coregistration of brain perfusion and tumor images was obtained because Tc-99m HMPAO and the Tl-201 chloride imaging were done simultaneously using a Triad SPECT unit. This method might play an important clinical role in the evaluation of patients with recurrent brain tumors.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Astrocytoma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / diagnostic imaging*
  • Organotechnetium Compounds*
  • Oximes*
  • Technetium Tc 99m Exametazime
  • Thallium Radioisotopes*
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon*

Substances

  • Organotechnetium Compounds
  • Oximes
  • Thallium Radioisotopes
  • Technetium Tc 99m Exametazime