Dr. Thomas Richard Pounds M.D.
Nuclear Medicine Specialist | In Vivo & In Vitro Nuclear Medicine
2801 L St Sacramento CA, 95816About
Dr. Thomas Pounds practices Nuclear Medicine in Sacramento, CA. Dr. Pounds uses procedures and treatments that apply molecular imaging and molecular therapy. Nuclear Medicine Physicians are trained and certified to provide such procedures as skeletal imaging, glucose metabolic imaging, brain perfusion, blood pool imaging, and thyroid imaging, among many others.
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Nuclear MedicineAmerican Board of Nuclear MedicineABNM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Factors associated with false-positive staging of lung cancer by positron emission tomography.
- Clinical utility of SPECT-(low-dose)CT versus SPECT alone in patients presenting for bone scintigraphy.
- Skeletal scintigraphic findings in acromegaly.
- Normal cholescintigram in In-111 WBC positive acute acalculous cholecystitis. The converse photopenic 'rim' sign.
- 18-Fluorodeoxyglucose uptake and survival of patients with suspected recurrent malignant glioma.
- Abnormal temporal lobe metabolism in violent subjects: correlation of imaging and neuropsychiatric findings.
- The use of positron emission tomography scanning in occult and recurrent head and neck cancer.
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