Hepatobiliary System Scan

The liver, gallbladder, and bile ducts can all be assessed using Hepatobiliary nuclear medicine imaging It employs radiotracers, which are microscopic amounts of radioactive substances commonly injected, breathed, or eaten. As the radiotracer moves through the investigation area, gamma rays are released. A specialised camera and computer detect gamma rays to provide images of your body's interior. Nuclear medicine imaging provides unique data that is frequently impossible to obtain using other imaging techniques.

Nuclear medicine imaging techniques such as hepatobiliary imaging are used to examine the liver, gallbladder, and ducts that make up the biliary system.

Radiotracers, which are small amounts of radioactive material, are used in nuclear medicine. Nuclear medicine is a tool that doctors use to diagnose, assess, and treat a wide range of disorders. Cancer, heart disease, digestive, endocrine, or neurological issues are examples of such illnesses. Nuclear medicine examinations detect molecular activity. As a result, they may be able to detect disease in its early stages. They can also show how well you are responding to therapy.

It is non-invasive to use nuclear medicine. It normally isn't painful, with the exception of intravenous injections. To diagnose and evaluate medical disorders, these tests employ radioactive substances known as radiopharmaceuticals or radiotracers.

What are some typical applications for the technique of hepatobiliary imaging?      

• Hepatobiliary imaging is a procedure used by doctors to assess conditions that affect the gallbladder, biliary ducts, and the cells of the liver.
• Additionally, hepatobiliary imaging is utilised to identify symptoms like
• Cholecystitis, a sudden gallbladder inflammation that can result in abdominal pain, following gallbladder or upper gastrointestinal surgery, discomfort or fever infants with biliary atresia, an obstruction in the channels that transfer bile from the liver to the gallbladder

The nuclear medicine scans which are included under the hepatobiliary imaging are:

• Chol scintigraphy – HIDA Imaging
• 99m Tc – Liver Spleen Scan