Incremental Value of Diagnostic 131I SPECT/CT Fusion Imaging in the Evaluation of Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma

Abstract

Iodine-131 SPECT/CT is useful for accurate evaluation of regional and distant activity in characterization of foci as residual thyroid tissue or nodal, pulmonary, or osseous metastasis. Suspected physiologic mimics of disease can be confirmed with increased reader confidence.