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Procedure. Results. Follow-up. What is a bone scan? A bone scan is an imaging test used to help diagnose problems with your bones. It safely uses a very small amount of a radioactive drug called a...
19 Οκτ 2023 · A whole-body bone scan is a painless and safe test to check your bones for issues or changes. You receive an injection of a radiotracer that collects in areas of irregular activity and highlights them on an imaging scan.
2 Απρ 2024 · A bone scan is a test that uses nuclear imaging to help diagnose and track several types of bone disease. Nuclear imaging involves using small amounts of radioactive substances, called radioactive tracers, a special camera that can detect the radioactivity and a computer.
12 Απρ 2024 · A full-body bone scan can take anywhere between three to four hours. If a three-phase bone scan is required, the tests can take several hours due to multiple scans being taken. This includes the time spent waiting for the radioactive tracer to fully circulate in the body.
A bone scan is a specialized radiology procedure used to examine the various bones of the skeleton. It is done to identify areas of physical and chemical changes in bone. A bone scan may also be used to follow the progress of treatment of certain conditions.
A bone scan can look at a particular joint or bone. In cancer it is more usual to scan the whole body. A large camera (called a gamma camera) scans you and picks up radioactivity. You have the scan in either the medical physics, nuclear medicine or x-ray department at the hospital.
8 Ιουν 2022 · A bone scan is used to diagnose diseases of the bone and to determine their severity. For cancer, it helps show whether the disease has started in the bones or spread to them. Bone scans also may help measure progress with treatments for bone cancer.
