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“Picture-in-Picture” Artifact in Post-therapeutic ¹³¹I Whole-body Survey: Deceiving Spot View but Unraveling Whole-body Scanning

10.4274/mirt.galenos.2021.65882

• Mohsen Qutbi
• Reyhane Ahmadi

Received Date: 16.03.2021 Accepted Date: 02.06.2021 Mol Imaging Radionucl Ther 2022;31(2):142-144 PMID: 35771034

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Artifacts originated from imaging hardware or instrumentation may be, on some occasions, confusing and peculiar to both physicians and technicians. Various artifacts from a variety of sources have been reported. In this note, we intend to describe a new one with an interesting pattern in whole-body scanning, which is strikingly different from its pattern in static spot view, in a patient presented for post-therapeutic ¹³¹I survey after total thyroidectomy.

Keywords: Post-therapeutic 131I survey, “Picture-in-Picture” artifact, whole-body scanning

Ethics

Informed Consent: Written Informed consent was obtained from the patient before performing the scanning.

Peer-review: Externally peer-reviewed.

Authorship Contributions

Concept: M.Q., Design: M.Q., R.A., Data Collection or Processing: M.Q., R.A., Analysis or Interpretation: M.Q., R.A., Literature Search: M.Q., R.A., Writing: M.Q., R.A.

Conflict of Interest: No conflict of interest was declared by the authors.

Financial Disclosure: The authors declared that this study received no financial support.

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