Abstract:Background The long waiting time for bone uptake after radiopharmaceutical injection in bone scintigraphy is a burden for patients with poor health. Thus, we aimed to investigate the equivalence between maximum standardized uptake values (SUVmax) for imaging with 2- and 3-h uptake times.Methods Thirty patients with jaw osteomyelitis or medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw who underwent single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) twice in the same day were enrolled. The SUVmax for the normal parie… Show more
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