With a current annual mortality rate of around 35% worldwide, infection remains a significant concern, and the diagnosis and localization of infectious foci is an important health issue. As an established infection-imaging modality, nuclear medicine plays a vital health-care role in the diagnosis and subsequent effective treatment of this condition. Despite the development of several newer radi...

Objectives: To measure the organ dose and calculate effective dose from CTAC acquisitions from four commonly used gamma camera SPECT/CT systems. Method: CTAC dosimetry data was collected using thermoluminescent dosimeters on GE's Infinia Hawkeye four and single slice systems, Siemen's Symbia T6 and the Philips Precedence. Organ and effective dose from the administration of 99m Tc-tetrofosmin an...

Nuclear medicine is a diagnostic imaging modality that is used to obtain clinical information about most of the major tissues and organs of the body. Diagnostic information is obtained from the way the tissues and organs process radiolabeled compounds (radiopharmaceuticals). The radiopharmaceutical is typically administered to the patient though an intravenous injection. The radiopharmaceutical...

Because radiopharmaceuticals are intended for human administration, quality control procedures are essential in ensuring the safety of these preparations. Although extensive quality control procedures are performed by the manufacturer, many radiopharmaceutical preparations are prepared in nuclear medicine departments using kits and short-lived radionuclides including technetium-99m CmTc) and in...

OBJECTIVE Estimation of activity accumulated in tumor and organs is very important in predicting the response of radiopharmaceuticals treatment. In this study, we synthesized (177)Lutetium ((177)Lu)-trastuzumab-iron oxide nanoparticles as a double radiopharmaceutical agent for treatment and better estimation of organ activity in a new way by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHODS (177)Lu-t...