Bone Scan Spect Procedure & Duration: Patient is injected with isotope and scanned for approximately 30 minutes and returns three hours later for another 60 minute scan.

A new study has determined that approximately three percent of all bone scan patients have markers of cardiac amyloidosis, which can lead to heart failure and increased mortality. Published in The ...

Researchers are studying nuclear bone scans to determine the prevalence and impact of a potentially deadly condition known as cardiac amyloidosis ...

Barbara N. Weissman, Osteoporosis: Radiologic and Nuclear Medicine Procedures, Public Health Reports (1974-), Vol. 102, Supplement: Women's Health. Proceedings of the ...