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Factors affecting uptake and retention of technetium-99m-diphosphonate and 99m-pertechnetate in osseous, connective and soft tissues

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The bone scanning complex,99mTc−Sn·EHDP, consisting of the nuclide technetium-99m, stannous ion and ethane-1-hydroxy-1,1-diphosphonate, administered intravenously is retained in soft tissues in proportion to increasing calcium content of the tissues. Within bone tissue, the retention is proportional to vascularity and to surface area of calcium phosphate in bones and not necessarily to calcium and phosphate concentration. The nuclidic agent99mTcO −4 but not the99mTc-diphosphonate is selectively taken up by the thyroid and this uptake can be blocked by administering sodium perchlorate. Among the connective tissues studied, the tracheal cartilage seems to have the greatest potential to calcify with increasing age of the animal and man. Soft tissue does not retain the bone scanning complex99mTc−Sn·EHDP but does retain99mTcO −4 .

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  1. Miami Valley Laboratories, Procter & Gamble Company, P. O. Box 39175, 45247, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Marion D. Francis Ph.D., Candice L. Slough & Andrew J. Tofe

  2. Department of Radioloty (Radioisotope Laboratory) and Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

    Edward B. Silberstein

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Francis, M.D., Slough, C.L., Tofe, A.J. et al. Factors affecting uptake and retention of technetium-99m-diphosphonate and 99m-pertechnetate in osseous, connective and soft tissues. Calc. Tis Res. 20, 303–311 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02546417

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