Technetium‐99m‐labeled iminodiacetic acid analogs are a new class of organic anions,
taken up and secreted by hepatocyte into hepatic bile by a carrier‐mediated organic anion …

Cholecystokinin acts by attaching to CCK receptors (Fig. 1) distributed in the smooth muscle
of the gallbladder and sphinc ter of Oddi (17). The degree of gallbladder emptying is CCK …

Distribution patterns of metastatic bone disease in 62 patients with soft-tissue cancers showed
that 60% of bone lesions were located in the axial and 40% in the appendicular skeleton. …

Hepatobiliary imaging, introduced first in late 1950s with iodine 131 rose bengal, has
undergone major changes since the introduction of technetium 99m-labeled agents in the late …

A new noninvasive technique for the measurement of the gallbladder evacuation quantitatively
is described. By using a radioactive bile marker [ 99m Tc]HIDA, the evacuation of the …

This second-edition textbook on nuclear hepatology and hepatobiliary diseases is well
written, handy, and supplemented with good illustrations and images that effectively explain …

… The extraction T,, of the deconvolved curve was thus not useful in defining the disease state.
… Table 2 shows that all three disease categories had a mean excretion T,,, which was signifi …

Gallbladder ejection fraction (GBEF) measured with a fatty meal (half-and-half milk) was
compared with that measured with 2 equal sequential intravenous infusions of cholecystokinin (…

… All results are expressed as mean percent of injected dose t sd and the mean values were
tested by Student t test for statistical significance. … Only 0.17% t 0.08% of the dose remained …

The main objective of this study was to test the constancy and variability of gallbladder (GB)
ejection fraction (EF) in long-term studies to (a) determine whether EF ever becomes normal …