During my 45-plus years in nuclear medicine, I have had the pleasure of serving in many roles—from staff technologist to radiology manager. However, most of my journey has been in academia. Teaching ...

A consistent and reliable intravenous infusion technique is critical for the safe and effective administration of therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals (TRPs) in clinical settings. This article aims to ...

Planar perfusion scintigraphy with 99mTc-labeled macroaggregated albumin is often used for pretherapy quantification of regional lung perfusion in lung cancer patients, particularly those with poor ...

An improved thresholding method for segmentation of PET volumes is proposed that uses the delineation-averaged activity concentration (AC) within an iterative procedure instead of the enclosed maximum ...

G. Sgouros, Ed. Reston, VA: Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 2015, 67 pages, $49 Publication of MIRD Monograph: Radiobiology and Dosimetry for Radiopharmaceutical Therapy with ...

Objective: This article presents a brief synopsis of the 1997 regulations from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission concerning the release from the hospital of patients treated for thyroid disease with ...

In 1966, Griffith et al. used “a standard breakfast of ordinary food” labeled with chromium-51 to report the first use of gastric emptying scintigraphy (GES). As the procedure was refined over the ...

In recent years, there has been an influx of new tracers into the field of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. Most of those that have been Food and Drug Administration–approved for clinical ...

The annual incidence of cardiac sarcoidosis is low, but increased awareness of this inflammatory condition has led to earlier disease recognition. High mortality rates compel prompt diagnosis and ...

In the world of nuclear medicine, health care professionals face the challenge of safeguarding themselves and their patients from occupational radiation exposure. As the field experiences exponential ...

The challenges of hybridizing PET and MRI as a simultaneous modality have been largely overcome in recent times. PET hybridized with MRI has seen the emergence of PET/MRI systems in the clinical ...

Diuretic renal scintigraphy plays a critical diagnostic role by providing a physiologic means for differentiating between obstructive and nonobstructive hydronephrosis and by assessing the function of ...