Mentoring and the Nuclear Medicine Technologist

Epidemiology for the nuclear medicine technologist.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to introduce the nuclear medicine technologist to the field of epidemiology. There are many applications of epidemiology in nuclear medicine, including research studies that deal with the causes of disease or ways to prevent disease from occurring and investigating the possible effects of ionizing radiation on occupational workers and the general public....

Nuclear Medicine Technologist Scope of Practice and Performance Standards.

The Nuclear Medicine Technologist in Europe - current status and future perspective.

The Nuclear Medicine Technologist (NMT) is a health care professional who is able to undertake the whole range of nuclear medicine procedures. He/She is a part of a team of health care specialists which may include doctors, physicists, radiochemists, radiopharmacists, other clinical scientists, technologists, nurses and others who support and care for the patient during diagnostic and therapeut...

CT artifact recognition for the nuclear technologist.

The goal of this article is to make the PET/CT and SPECT/CT operator aware of common artifacts found in CT. In diagnostic imaging, the ability to render an accurate diagnosis requires the technologist to take steps to optimize image quality and recognize when image quality has been compromised-that is, when there is an image artifact. One way these artifacts occur is through the inability of th...

Navigating the biomedical research system as a full participant: strategies and opportunities for the nuclear medicine technologist.

After a quick look at the New England Journal of Medicine, Radiology, or for that matter, The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM), one is inundated with research reports. These range from esoteric and highly specialized methods to more broadly applied and clinically useful findings. Despite daily pressures to complete clinic workloads, train students, and manage overtime hours, many allied health...