Nuclear medicine utilizes radioisotopes to diagnose and in some cases treat disease. Modern instruments can image their accumulation in an organ and provide quantitative data when indicated. The strength of these procedures is in the unique physiologic information they provide, rather than the presentation of precise anatomic detail.

Editorial Board PHILLP 0. ALDERSON, M.D. THOMAS F. BUDINGER, M.D., Ph.D. R. EDWARDCOLEMAN, M.D. JOANNA S. FOWLER, Ph.D. RAYMOND L. HAYES, Ph.D. EDWARD J. HOFFMAN, Ph.D. KENNETH A. KROHN, Ph.D. JOHN G. MCAFEE, M.D. BARBARA J. MCNEIL, M.D., Ph.D. GERD MUEHLLEHNER, Ph.D. PAUL H. MURPHY, Ph.D. DENNIS D. PATTON, M.D. MICHAEL E. PHELPS, Ph.D. DOUGLAS A. Ross, M.D., Ph.D. ARTHUR A. SASAHARA, M.D. EDWA...

OBJECTIVE A trend in corporate healthcare is the merging of small community hospitals with larger regional hospitals to expand the patient base. The purpose of this article is to illustrate the benefits of operating several nuclear medicine departments under a centralized management system, rather than operating many decentralized departments. The issues discussed are the development, financial...

introduction: citation tracking is a bibliometrics method to analyze the scientific impact of journal articles which can be done through scopus (sc), google scholar (gs), or isi web of knowledge (wos). in the current study, we analyzed the citations to 2006-2012 articles of iranian journal of nuclear medicine (ijnm) in the sc and gs. methods: we retrieved the relevant data from sc and gs offici...

N uclear medicine and molecular imaging are vital elements of today’s medical practice, adding an additional dimension to diagnoses that can change the way common and devastating diseases are understood and treated. However, it is a complicated, fast-evolving specialty that is not necessarily well understood by primary care or even referring physicians. Nuclear medicine procedures are sometimes...

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