List of original publications

I Larikka M, Ahonen A, Junila J, Niemelä O, Hämäläinen M & Syrjälä H (2001) Extended combined ^99mTc-white blood cell and bone imaging improves the diagnostic accuracy in the detection of hip replacement infections. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine 28: 288–293.

II Larikka M, Ahonen A, Junila J, Niemelä O, Hämäläinen M & Syrjälä H (2001) Improved method for detecting knee replacement infections based on extended combined ^99mTc-white blood cell/bone imaging. Nuclear Medicine Communications 22: 1145–1150.

III Larikka M, Ahonen A, Niemelä O, Puronto O, Junila J, Hämäläinen M, Britton K & Syrjälä H (2002) ^99mTc-ciprofloxacin (Infecton) imaging in the diagnosis of knee prosthesis infections. Nuclear Medicine Communications 23: 167–170.

IV Larikka M, Ahonen A, Niemelä O, Junila J, Hämäläinen M, Britton K & Syrjälä H (2002) Comparison of ^99mTc ciprofloxacin, ^99mTc white blood cell and three-phase bone imaging in the diagnosis of hip prosthesis infections: improved diagnostic accuracy with extended imaging time. Nuclear Medicine Communications 23: 655–661.

This thesis also includes some previously unpublished data. The permission of the copyright owners Springer Verlag (I) and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (II, III and IV) to reproduce the original material is gratefully acknowledged.