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There has been considerable under-reporting of drug and radiopharmaceutical interactions, security and adverse reactions. The increasing use of radiopharmaceuticals has come to the attention of nuclear medicine staff and regulatory bodies. The aim is to provide reference for adverse reactions which could help all nuclear medicine staff in their daily routine. Reporting adverse events, including...

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This report summarizes the development, administration, and scoring of the nuclear cardiology specialty examination offered by the Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board (NMTCB) at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine in Toronto, Canada, on June 23, 2001. During the NMTCB meeting in the fall of 2000, the Board approved the development and administration of an advanced ...

Shortly before the time of this writing, Michael Ter-Pogossian, PhD, passed away at the age of 71. He was considered by many to be the father of PET and is best known for experiments beginning in the 1950s, which led to the development of PET as a practical diagnostic tool (Fig. 1). In my research of the literature for this article, Dr. Ter-Pogossian's name appeared frequently on many of the la...

Background: People who have been administrated radiopharmaceuticals could be a source of radiation to their relatives, medical nurses, and people who are in contact with them. The aim of this work was to estimate radiation dose received by nuclear medicine nurses. Materials and Methods: In this study, the dose rates at various distances of 5 – 100 cm from 70 patients, who were administered diag...

Introduction: Gamma radiations have used frequently at medical radiation centers for treatment of different cancers. This study aimed to consider possible alterations in level of serum zinc and selenium among nuclear medicine staff. Materials and Methods: This cross sectional study was carried out on 30 nuclear medicine staff and 10 individuals as control gr...

introduction: one of the major problems in the development of nuclear medicine images is the presence of noise. the noise level in nuclear medicine images is usually reduced by the analysis of imaging data in a fourier transform environment. the main drawback of this environment belongs to low signal to noise ratio in high frequencies because removing noise frequencies may remove data and times...

today, nuclear medicine has rapidly been developed so that in some cases, plays a unique role in diagnosis but unfortunalty in spite of diagnostic and therapeutic advantages, the term “nuclear” can induce worries in patients and society. in this article, base on new documents, we intend to show that this worries has no scientific basis. to produce a realistic view, regarding to radiation protec...