Nuclear medicine has a long tradition of incorporating quantitative analysis in its diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Many of the clinical and research applications of molecular imaging rely on a solid quantitative foundation, which is highly dependent on the performance characteristics of nuclear medicine instrumentation and the accuracy of image correction and reconstruction algorithms. ...

Gamma camera imaging is an important technique in nuclear medicine. It capable of diagnostic metabolically active areas and organ function, it can be used to evaluate blood flow the heart muscle, measure bone growth, detect tumors, perform many other medical studies. a real world application that integrates concepts medicine, physics, geometric optics, data processing, calibration, image format...

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...

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...

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...

In 1972, forty years ago, Division of Radioisotope Utilization separated from Department of Radiology of our Hospital, having grown into independent Department of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology. According to Professor Šime Spaventi, the first head of the Division of Radioisotope Utilization, then head of the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology1, from 1963 when the Division was establishe...