T he American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM) and the American Board of Radiology (ABR) have decided not to move forward with proposals in a joint statement sent to stakeholders in July 2015, which included replacing nuclear medicine and nuclear radiology training programs with a single training pathway leading to a new ABR certificate in nuclear medicine, with ultimate dissolution of the ABNM...

UNLABELLED Current radiation protection recommendations do not provide clear guidelines or advice on pregnancy screening strategies for diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures. Previous studies have reported on variations in current practice for pregnancy screening before diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures. The development of consensus statements aims to provide a consistent approach and ass...

Introduction: Ionizing radiation in medical imaging is one of the dominant sources of exposure, and correct knowledge of radiation protection, affects staff safety behaviors during procedures. This study aimed to assess the radiation protection Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) amongst nuclear medicine centers' staff in Iran. Methods: To evaluate the...

this book has three chapters: heart, lung and radiation protection. in each chapter, indications of scans, radiopharaceuticals the study performance, patient preparation, report and also possible problems were discussed. in addition, in the end of each chapter, many mutliplechoice question (mca) were expressed. the studying of this book for at medical students, physicians and colleagues is reco...

Medical application of ionizing radiation and radioactive isotopes were considered almost immediately after their discovery. The intense research interest in radioactivity, materials structure, subatomic particles and in the establishment of physical principles resulted in milestone inventions such as the radiotracer principle, particle accelerators, nuclear reactors and detectors sensitive eno...

a Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD b Department of Radiology, University of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, CA c Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada d Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center, UConn Health, Farmington, CT e Department of Radiology, Vanderbilt Universit...

1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 88 Jiefang Road, Zhejiang, Hangzhou 310009, China 2Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevrd, P.O. Box 59 Houston, TX 77030, USA 3Department of Health Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing, Chi...

Nuclear medicine scintigraphy, in conjunction with other diagnostic tools, plays a vital role in assessing patients with congenital migrational anomalies. We present 5 patients, 4 of whom were hypothyroid and 1 patient who was euthyroid. Scintigraphic and ultrasonographic images were examined and correlated with laboratory results. These patients demonstrate the spectrum of migrational anomalie...

The role of the nuclear medicine has changed, from the early days when it was the only alternative to x-rays, to the present, when nuclear images are interpreted in light of specific metabolic processes, not anatomy. The development of specific receptor targeting radiopharmaceuticals, markers of viability using PETor SPECT, analogues of neurotransmitters etc., have placed the nuclear medi...

Objective(s): Renography is used for the diagnostic evaluation of pediatric patients with a suspected obstruction of urinary tract or impaired renal function. The recommended dose for children have been released by the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, and Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine. Since acquisition counts in dynamic scintig...