background: hot lab is a specially designed room in a nuclear medicine hospital where the radiopharmaceuticals are delivered, stored and prepared for dispensing. 99mo/99mtc-generator is the major source in the hot lab used for various medical imaging. it is important to maintain a standard for hot lab procedures to optimize the patient care and minimize radiation exposure to all nuclear medicin...

T he application of noninvasive nuclear medicine imaging techniques to the study of patients with suspected or known cardiovascular diseases offers important diagnostic, pathophysiologic and prognostic information that may directly affect patient management. The complementary nature of the functional and physiologic information obtained from nuclear cardiology examinations with the anatomic and...

background: to investigate the status of the nuclear medicine (nm) centers in iran for the performance of dose calibrators, 18 out of 54 centers providing nm services in iran were randomly selected and inspected in 1997. in the first phase of the study the selected centers were inspected for performing of quality control (qc) tests of dose calibrators. the linearity of the activity response, pr...

In the nuclear medicine setting, the task of obtaining informed consent for procedures that require it is frequently left to the nuclear medicine technologist. Unfortunately, a patient's signature on a consent form does not mean the patient has given informed consent, or what legal scholars call valid consent. On completion of this scholarly bioethics article, the reader will understand the tro...

INTRODUCTION The use of radionuclides in medical practice, either for diagnosis or for treatment, has grown steadily in recent years due to the introduction of new radiopharmaceuticals and equipment. Surveys of population doses derived from medical procedures have been conducted in several countries, but in Brazil this information has been scarce or non-existent. We thus decided to undertake a ...

BACKGROUND The diagnosis of spondylodiscitis can be difficult, because the patients history, subjective symptoms and physical findings are often inconclusive, particularly in the early stages. AIM To perform an overview on the role of nuclear medicine procedures with single photon emission tomography (SPET) and positron emission tomography (PET) tracers in the diagnosis of spondylodiscitis. ...

An accurate diagnosis, nowadays, supposes sophisticated procedures to corroborate outstanding medical techniques, in the patient interest. This is due to the fact that different physical phenomena are giving different anatomical or physiological relevant details. Nuclear medicine, nuclear magnetic resonance or noninvasive microwave procedures are giving different aspects that are completing eac...

While the introduction of radioactive tracers in the study of metabolic pathways has been well-documented in clinical thyroidology as early as 1924, the widespread utilization in other clinical specialties has been hampered by slow developments in radiation-detecting devices and in the production of appropriate radiopharmaceuticals, in addition tothe morbid fear of radiation. In the Philippines...

"It is not a wise choice!", this was the reaction of my father when I applied for nuclear medicine residency program 26 years ago. The old retired officer continued that hi-tech nuclear medicine is dependent on multiple advanced sections that may not be easily available especially in the developing countries. Now he is not alive to see that political misconducts have added fuel to the fire. Glo...