Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Delhi.
*Correspondence address: Department of Nuclear Medicine, INMAS, Brig. S. K. Mazumdar Road, Timarpur, Delhi-110054. Ph: 011 - 23905168, 23914377, E-mail: rkashyap100@gmail.com
Planar imaging is usually undertaken to sample whole body or specific area of interest to ascertain radiotracer accumulation. Presence of any other pathology near the area of interest may produce a wrong interpretation in a planar image. To overcome this problem, tomographic imaging using SPECT is useful. We present a case where SPECT imaging helped in localizing the site of infection in an 80-year male patient with right hip prosthesis undergoing 99mTc-Ciprofloxacin (Diagnobact) imaging for ruling out infected prosthesis.
99mTc-Ciprofloxacin, SPECT, Infection imaging, Diagnobact
