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Radionuclide Imaging of Skeletal Implants

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Radionuclides are atomic species that are inherently unstable and decay emitting energy in the form of ionising radiation. Nuclear medicine or radionuclide imaging studies use a variety of radionuclides, usually bound to a further molecule to form a radiopharmaceutical. The radionuclide acts as the marker that allows localisation and formation of an image with a camera/scanner system, whilst the radiopharmaceutical (with the carrier molecule) gives the tracer specificity.

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Jayaprakasam, V.S., Fielding, P. (2018). Radionuclide Imaging of Skeletal Implants. In: Agarwal, S., Bansal, G. (eds) Radiology of Orthopedic Implants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76009-4_9

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