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Application of nuclear medicine to inflammatory bowel disease

  

  1. 1a.Department of Nuclear Medicine; b. Department of Gastroenterology, Peking University
    First Hospital, Beijing 100034, China,2. HTA CO. LTD, Beijing 102413,China
  • Online:2018-08-05 Published:2018-09-10
  • Contact: Corresponding author: Wang Rongfu, Email: rongfu_wang@163.com

Abstract: This paper  aims to summarize the progress of nuclear medicine in the management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease(IBD). Radionuclide labelled WBC scintigraphy and 18FFDG PET represent a useful tool in the diagnosis, therapy response and disease monitoring of IBD.

Key words: inflammatory bowel diseases, colitis, ulcerative, Crohn disease, tomography, emissioncomputed,singlephoton, positronemission tomography;tomography, Xray computed