Abstract:
There are various radionuclide imaging modalities for the diagnosis and evaluation of curative effect about differentiated thyroid cancer with bone metastases. Radionuclide imaging is widely used in many kinds of malignant tumors with bone metastases. Recently, SPECT and PET are main included in the radionuclide imaging.The former main contains
131I、
99Tc
m-MDP imaging and the later one main contains
124I、
18F-FDG as wall as
18F-NaF imaging. This review concentrates on the commonly used radionuclide imaging methods in patients with DTC of bone metastases.