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CT examination: (A) patient with massive right pleural effusion and inflammatory lesions; (B) post-hepatectomy, post-splenectomy, severe liver deformation, intrahepatic bile duct stones and dilated intrahepatic bile ducts.
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Therefore, CT examination (Figure 1) and 99mTc-mebrofenin hepatobiliary scintigraphy (Figure 2) were performed and no significant fistulae were found.
99mTc-mebrofenin hepatobiliary scintigraphy: (A, B) Impaired liver function and large right pleural effusion with no obvious developer distribution within it.
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Therefore, CT examination (Figure 1) and 99mTc-mebrofenin hepatobiliary scintigraphy (Figure 2) were performed and no significant fistulae were found.
Fluorescence imaging in the NIR I region: (A) strong fluorescent signal seen in pleural effusion; (B) strong fluorescent signal seen in sputum.
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I-region fluorescence imaging system provided by the Beijing Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging (Digital Precision Medicine). Interestingly, we can clearly observe a strong fluorescent signal in both pleural effusion and sputum (Figure 3).
NIR region II fluorescence images: (A) strong fluorescent signal in pleural effusion; (B) strong fluorescent signal in sputum.
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Also, we found strong fluorescent signals in pleural effusions and sputum using near-infrared region II fluorescence imaging (Figure 4).