Veterinary nuclear medicine. Scintigraphical examinations - A review

A review is presented of Veterinary Nuclear Medicine focusing on scintigrap hical examinations. Most frequently applied clinical examination protocols are described, i.e. bone, thyroid, hepatic, renal, brain, cardiac and pulmo nary scintigraphy, as well as oncological and inflammation scintigraphy, an d miscellaneous scintigraphical examinations. Emphasis is placed on the typ es of procedures and the clinical information gained therefrom. No attempt is made to present or justify procedural details concerning instrumentation , radiopharmaceutical preparations, kinetic or radiation safety aspects. De tailed examinations are described following a schematic framework as: radio pharmaceuticals, examination protocol, indications and data evaluation, and illustrations. All the illustrations were taken between 1995 and 1999 from the data archive of the authors.