The Clinical Role of Radionuclide Hepatobilliary Imaging

Abstract

Radionuclide hepatobilliary imaging is a simple and noninvasive method to study the function and pathophysiology of hepatocyte and billiary tree. The recent development of the technetium 99m labeled hepatobilliary agents especially TcIDA (iminodiacetic acid) analogs provides successful visualization of the hepatobiliary system in patients with elevated billirubin levels. In asmuch as the easy and noninvasive method, there still no other better diagnostic manipulations has been proposed for hepatobilliary function study.