Diagnosis and evaluation of curative effect progress of radionuclide imaging methods in differentiated thyroid cancer of bone metastases

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.