Physiological considerations in radionuclide imaging of the penis during impotence therapy

Am J Physiol Imaging. 1989;4(2):75-80.

Abstract

The increased use of intracorporeal drugs in the treatment of impotence has advanced our understanding of erectile physiology. Radionuclide imaging of the penis (nuclear penogram) has provided clinicians with a noninvasive, objective measure of blood flow and blood pool changes during erection and with assistance in the quantitative documentation of therapeutic effect.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Drug Combinations
  • Erectile Dysfunction / diagnostic imaging
  • Erectile Dysfunction / drug therapy*
  • Erythrocytes
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Papaverine / therapeutic use
  • Penile Erection*
  • Penis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Phentolamine / therapeutic use
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Regional Blood Flow
  • Technetium

Substances

  • Drug Combinations
  • Technetium
  • Papaverine
  • Phentolamine