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Foot and ankle pain is a common complaint among patients and can be caused by a wide range of conditions including traumatic injuries, degenerative conditions as well as inflammatory and infectious disorders. Accurate diagnosis is crucial for the effective management of foot and ankle pain, and imaging modalities such as X-ray, CT, MRI, and ultrasound are often used to evaluate these disorders. However, these imaging modalities have limitations, particularly when it comes to the functional assessment of foot and ankle pathology. Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) combined with Computed Tomography (CT) imaging, known as SPECT/CT, provides a comprehensive evaluation of foot and ankle pathology by combining the functional information provided by SPECT with the anatomic detail of CT (Ghani et al. 2021; Kampen et al. 2018).
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Berwouts, D. et al. (2023). Foot and Ankle Pain: Introduction to Conditions and Procedures. In: Van den Wyngaert, T., Gnanasegaran, G., Strobel, K. (eds) Clinical Atlas of Bone SPECT/CT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_54
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