Gross M D, Shapiro B, Thrall J H, Freitas J E, Beierwaltes W H
Endocr Rev. 1984 Spring;5(2):221-81. doi: 10.1210/edrv-5-2-221.
The nuclear medicine approach to the portrayal of endocrine organs is unique; the scintigraphic images provide not only anatomic and localization information, but in many instances allow a quantitative assessment of organ function. The ability to image endocrine glands is based upon the design of radionuclides and radiopharmaceuticals with characteristics to take advantage of many unique and specific biochemical and advantage of many unique and specific biochemical and metabolic functions of these tissues. The recent introduction of new radiopharmaceutical and tracers has provided the consulting endocrinologist with imaging procedures that allow localization and functional characterization not available by other single, noninvasive diagnostic modalities. This review will serve as an update of the available techniques to image and quantitate the function of the endocrine glands using the nuclear medicine approach.
核医学描绘内分泌器官的方法独具特色；闪烁扫描图像不仅提供解剖学和定位信息，而且在许多情况下还能对器官功能进行定量评估。对内分泌腺进行成像的能力基于放射性核素和放射性药物的设计，这些放射性核素和放射性药物具有利用这些组织许多独特且特定的生化和代谢功能的特性。新型放射性药物和示踪剂的近期引入为内分泌科会诊医生提供了成像程序，这些程序能够实现其他单一非侵入性诊断方式无法提供的定位和功能特征描述。本综述将对使用核医学方法对内分泌腺进行成像和功能定量的现有技术进行更新。
