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“Picture-in-Picture” Artifact in Post-therapeutic <sup>131</sup>I Whole-body Survey: Deceiving Spot View but Unraveling Whole-body Scanning
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VOLUME: 31 ISSUE: 2
P: 142-144
June 2022

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

Mol Imaging Radionucl Ther 2022;31(2):142-144
DOI: 10.4274/mirt.galenos.2021.65882
Mohsen Qutbi 1
Reyhane Ahmadi 2
1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taleghani Educational Hospital, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2. Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Farshchian Heart Center, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
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Received Date: 16.03.2021
Accepted Date: 02.06.2021
Publish Date: 27.06.2022
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ABSTRACT

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.

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