Abstract:
ACCUMULATIONANDIMAGINGOF99Tcm┐DTPAINBACTERIALABSCESSESZhaoChunleiLiYamingLiWeiguoBaiJingmingWangGuoliLiDeshunHanChunqiLiangZhenrongLiuHaoLuoXigui(DepartmentofNuclearMedicine,TheFirstAffiliatedHospitalofChinaMedicalUniversity,Shenyang110001)ABSTRACTTheimagingandbiodistributionof18.5MBq99Tcm-DTPAinmiceinjectedwithstaphylo-coccus-inducedabscessesiscaried.TheplanarimagesofthewholebodyandbothhindlegsofeachmouseresectedareobtainedwithSPECT.Theabscessesarewellocated.Thecountratesoftisuesateachtimepointaredeterminedandthentheratiosofdiferenttissue,sradioactivelevelsarecalculated.ThehighratiosofA/Matdiferenttimeareobtained.Theresultsindi-catethat99Tcm-DTPAisasimpleandusefulagentforinflammatoryfocilocalization.Keywords99Tcm-DTPAinflammationradionuclideimaging