| Conventional methods for cancer diagnosis use roentgenography, scintigraphy, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging techniques for tissue imaging. |
| Nuclear medicine scintigraphy can image the entire axial and appendicular skeleton to detect distant sites of osseous metastases. |
| Technetium-99m methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy relies on an osteoblastic response to generate tracer uptake. |
| The thyroid gland itself may be checked using a test called scintigraphy. |
| In terms of PET scintigraphy, it is going to vary from province to province. |
| Another important field of application is the use of radioisotopes in medicine for scintigraphy and the diagnosis of melanoma. |
