S NM leadership, including the SNM training task force in collaboration with the American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM), continues to work on educational materials, guidelines, credentialing statements, and position papers regarding competency in nuclear medicine to ensure high-quality care for patients who may benefit from diagnostic and therapeutic procedures with radiopharmaceuticals. The...

OBJECTIVE The use of radionuclides in patients undergoing nuclear medicine procedures presents a special concern on the safety of not only the patients but also of those who come in contact with such patients either at the nuclear medicine centre or at home after discharge from the facility. This has heightened the public concern about nuclear medicine especially in Nigeria where the practice i...

background: ct scan and nuclear medicine exams deliver a great part of medical exposures. this study examined professional radiation hazards in ct scan and nuclear medicine workers.   methods : in a cross sectional study 30 occupationally exposed workers and 7 controls (all from personnel of a laboratory) were selected. physical dosimetry was performed for exposed workers. blood samples were ob...

Residency Training Requirements: For Better or Worse? A proposal has recently been put forward to increase the duration of the nuclear medicine residency and implement a 3-tier residency training requirement beginning in 2005 or 2006. The proposal includes increasing the length of the nuclear medicine residency from 3 to 4 years (1 basic clinical year [PGY-1] plus 3 years of nuclear medicine) f...

solitary pulmonary nodule (spn) is a frequent finding on the chest x-ray and computed tomography. nuclear medicine techniques play an important role in the diagnosis and management of spn. in the current review, we briefly will explain the different nuclear medicine modalities in this regard including positron emission tomography (pet) using 18-f-fdg, and 11-c-methionine, and single photon emis...

introduction: active personal dosimeters (apds) are well accepted as useful and reliable instruments for individual dosimetry measurements. apds have many advantages compared with passive dosimeters for individual external radiation dose assessments. in routine monitoring, occupational exposure is carried out for verification and demonstration of compliance with the regulatory dose limits. so, ...