@article{Treglia_Cason_Fagioli_2013, title={Recent applications of nuclear medicine in diagnostics (I part)}, volume={4}, url={https://www.italjmed.org/ijm/article/view/itjm.2010.84}, DOI={10.4081/itjm.2010.84}, abstractNote={Introduction: Aim of this review is to describe the recent applications of nuclear medicine techniques in diagnostics, particularly in oncology. <br />Materials and methods: We reviewed scientific literature data searching for the current role of tomographic nuclear medicine techniques (SPECTand PET) in oncology and summarized the main applications of these techniques. <br />Results: Nuclear medicine techniques have a key role in oncology allowing early diagnosis of many tumours, an accurate staging of disease and evalutation of treatment response. Hybrid SPECT/CT and PET/CT imaging systems now provide metabolic and functional information from SPECTor PETcombined with the high spatial resolution and anatomic information of CT. The most frequent applications of SPECT/CT in oncology concern thyroid tumours, neuroendocrine tumours, bone metastases and lymph node mapping. Furthermore the evaluation of many tumours may benefit from PET/CT imaging. <br />Discussion: The recent development of new radiopharmaceuticals and the growth of hybrid tomographic devices, such as SPECT/CT and PET/CT, now permits molecular imaging of biologic processes at the cellular level to improve both the diagnosis and treatment of many tumours.}, number={2}, journal={Italian Journal of Medicine}, author={Treglia, Giorgio and Cason, Ernesto and Fagioli, Giorgio}, year={2013}, month={Apr.}, pages={84–91} }