{"title":"Retrospective study of post-treatment <sup>131</sup>I SPECT/CT imaging for personalizing therapy of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer.","authors":"Sonya Sergieva, Teodor Sofiyanski, Bozhil Robev, Milena Dimcheva, Albena Fakirova","doi":"10.3897/folmed.66.e139177","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The absence of anatomical landmarks in the whole body scan makes it challenging to precisely localize 131I uptake, which is used to treat patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). Recently, SPECT/CT studies have been utilized to increase the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity.</p>","PeriodicalId":12415,"journal":{"name":"Folia medica","volume":"66 6","pages":"776-786"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Folia medica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3897/folmed.66.e139177","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Dentistry","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Introduction: The absence of anatomical landmarks in the whole body scan makes it challenging to precisely localize 131I uptake, which is used to treat patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). Recently, SPECT/CT studies have been utilized to increase the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity.