PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bolser, Barbara E.
AU  - Mountz, James M.
AU  - Steventon, Robert S.
AU  - Suto, Patricia
AU  - Miller, Kevin
AU  - Gross, Milton D.
TI  - Rapid Urine Dilution to Improve Pelvic Imaging in Bone Scanning
DP  - 1988 Jun 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - 53--56
VI  - 16
IP  - 2
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/16/2/53.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/16/2/53.full
SO  - J. Nucl. Med. Technol.1988 Jun 01; 16
AB  - A significant reduction in the contribution of bladder radioactivity to total counts seen on the anterior pelvic view of a bone scintiscan can be effected by the administration of 16 to 32 oz of water given immediately after the initial series of bone images (3 hr delayed) with a repeat pelvic spot view immediately thereafter. A mean reduction of bladder radioactivity from 29% of total pelvic counts to 7.5% was facilitated using this modification of our routine bone imaging protocol. This simple, rapid dilution technique improved image quality in each of a total of 11 arbitrarily selected patients evaluated by bone scintigraphy, without increasing total scan time or resulting in any adverse or untoward effects.