The thyroid gland plays a critical role in regulating metabolic functions including heart rate and cardiac output, lipid metabolism, heat regulation, and skeletal growth. Recent advances in thyroid imaging have considerably improved the diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and prognosis of high prevalence thyroid diseases such as thyroid nodule, goitre, thyroiditis, and thyroid cancer that affect the normal thyroid function.
Although thyroid scintigraphy and ultrasound continues to be the mainstay of the diagnostic imaging of the thyroid gland, there have been several recent advances that are of interest to both radiologists and endocrinologists. Considering the above, what are the recent advances in the imaging of the thyroid gland?
