Systems and methods for forced non-uniform radiopharmaceutical uptake

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PATENT NO 9585624
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14015450

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A method is provided including identifying a target portion of a patient corresponding to a portion of interest of the patient to be scanned with a nuclear medicine scanning technique. The method also includes applying an uptake increasing technique to at least one of the target portion or an application portion of the patient other than the target portion. The uptake increasing technique is configured to increase uptake of a radiopharmaceutical to the target portion of the patient relative to portions of the patient other than the target portion. Also, the method includes administering the radiopharmaceutical to the patient temporally proximate to the applying an uptake increasing technique.

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GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS ISRAEL LTD20225 WATER TOWER BLVD W492 BROOKFIELD WI 53045

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Hefetz, Yaron Kibbutz Alonim, IL 134 2155
Tsukerman, Leonid Q. Mozkin, IL 15 195

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