objective: consultation-liaison (cl) psychiatry interfaces between psychiatry and other medical disciplines to promote integrated care of patients. the purpose of this study is evaluation of attitudes and practice of mazandaran university of medical sciences physicians of teaching hospitals regarding cl psychiatry. methods:in this descriptive study, all of the general practitioners, specialist ...

Transition metal complexes of rhenium and technetium find wide application in nuclear medicine and the chemistry of these elements is still the focus of intense research efforts. For therapeutic and diagnostic applications, currently much attention is dedicated to the development of new targeting strategies aimed at appending the metal complexes to biological vectors (e.g. a peptide) for a site...

OBJECTIVE Radiology information system (RIS) is basically evolved for the need of radiologists and ignores the vital steps needed for a proper work flow of Nuclear Medicine Department. Moreover, CT/MRI oriented classical PACS systems are far from satisfying Nuclear Physicians like storing dynamic data for reprocessing and quantitative analysis of colored images. Our purpose was to develop a wor...

The whole-body and hand radiation doses to our technical staff were retrospectively compared for three distinct 4-mo periods when either 201TI or 99mTc-sestamibi were exclusively used for stress myocardial perfusion imaging. During the initial 4-mo period when 99mTc-sestamibi replaced 201TI, the mean whole-body film badge readings increased from 100 to 450 microSv/mo (p < 0.001) for nuclear med...

a research was carried out to determine the factors affecting knowledge, attitude and practice of secnodary school girls concerning iron deficiency anemia, in quazvin city. the study population consists of 218 students who were randomly selected form ten secondary schools in a selected area. aquestionnaire was prepared to collect the data and statistical tests of x2 and regression were employed...

A practical guidance document on peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRNT) in neuroendocrine tumors is being published this month in the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (1). This document is the result of close collaboration among experts in the field of PRRNT from the International Atomic Energy Agency; the Radionuclide Therapy, Oncology, Dosimetry, and Radiophar...

OBJECTIVES Clinical tumor imaging with (18)F-FDG in PET is growing in demand. This article will provide a review of current patient preparation and imaging techniques. The goal is to make the PET study as noninvasive as possible for the patient while obtaining quality images. Communication and coordination when scheduling these studies involves the patient and radiopharmacy, scanner, and suppor...

health professionals play crucial roles on the self-confidence of nursing mothers and their knowledge of breastfeeding. the aim of this study was a comparison of two different breastfeeding workshops on participants’ knowledge, attitude, practice (kap) and related factors. a cross-sectional study took place in fetal and neonatal research centre (2011- 2012). the intervention composed of two dif...