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In Vivo Nuclear Medical Techniques for the Evaluation of Liver Function

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Cholescintigraphy

Part of the book series: Developments in Nuclear Medicine ((DNUM,volume 1))

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Undoubtedly the most widely known in vivo nuclear medical technique for evaluating the liver is scintinraphy using radioactive colloids. The fact that intravenously injected colloidal particles accumulate in the phagocytes of the reticulo endothelial system and in particular the Kupffer cells of the liver has long been known. Voigt (1,2) first attempted quantitative studies of colloid biodistribution by measuring the distribution of silver colloid in rabbits using chemical and microscopic assays.

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Cox, P.H., Tjen, H.S.L.M. (1981). In Vivo Nuclear Medical Techniques for the Evaluation of Liver Function. In: Cox, P.H. (eds) Cholescintigraphy. Developments in Nuclear Medicine, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8325-0_2

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