Tomographic and planar radionuclide imaging in patients suspected meniscal injury: Arthroscopic correlation

Conference · Wed May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1985 · J. Nucl. Med.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5972041

Fajman, W A; Diehl, M; Dunaway, E; Stephenson, R; Eisner, R; Riggins, R S; Berger, H J

In patients (pts) with knee pain which may be related to meniscal tears, clinical judgment is used to determine whether medical management or arthroscopy is indicated. Based on the assumption that meniscal injury will result in adjacent changes in Tc-99m MDP bone images, studies using both planar and tomographic techniques were performed in 12 pts referred for arthroscopy. Planar imaging was performed in the anterior, posterior, and posterior medial and lateral oblique positions of the symptomatic knee. Single photon emission computed tomography was performed using a 64 view 360/sup 0/ acquisition of both knees. In this series, both imaging techniques were accurate in identifying abnormality, but analysis of transaxial tomographic data showed greater contrast and facilitated localization because of the better spatial orientation provided by this method. Thus, tomographic bone imaging appears valuable in defining areas of localized abnormality in the knees of pts with meniscal injury.

• Research Organization: Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA
• OSTI ID: 5972041
• Report Number(s): CONF-850611-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: J. Nucl. Med.; (United States) Journal Volume: 26:5
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
ACCURACY
ANIMAL TISSUES
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BODY
BONE JOINTS
BONE TISSUES
CARTILAGE
CAT SCANNING
COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY
CONNECTIVE TISSUE
COUNTING TECHNIQUES
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
IMAGE PROCESSING
INJURIES
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
LIGAMENTS
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ORGANS
PAIN
PROCESSING
RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING
RADIOISOTOPES
SCINTISCANNING
SKELETON
SYMPTOMS
TECHNETIUM 99
TECHNETIUM ISOTOPES
TISSUES
TOMOGRAPHY
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES