Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology July 2021, jnmt.120.261889; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2967/jnmt.120.261889 ...

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 ...

For many years, SPECT was undervalued in comparison to PET (1), not only because of the higher spatial resolution and sensitivity of PET but also because PET/CT was enabling quantification of tissue ...

Nuclear medicine technology assumes responsibility for examination-specific patient preparation procedures. This requires a clear understanding of the possible effects of medications on the outcome of ...

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 ...

gastric emptying scintigraphy; guidelines; accreditation; protocols; standardization; Since its inception in 1966, nuclear medicine gastric emptying scintigraphy (GES) has evolved to demonstrate ...

Traditionally, practice in nuclear medicine has involved strong emphasis on radiation safety principles. Nuclear medicine technologists (NMTs) focus on practices that keep patients, the public, and ...

The GPT-3.5–powered ChatGPT was released in late November 2022 powered by the generative pretrained transformer (GPT) version 3.5. It has emerged as a readily accessible source of patient information ...

Thyroid follicular epithelial cell–derived cancer includes papillary carcinoma, follicular carcinoma, Hürthle cell carcinoma, poorly differentiated thyroid cancer, and anaplastic thyroid carcinoma.

An adult lymphoma patient developed Cushing syndrome after short-term, high-dose dexamethasone administration and presented with a distinctive Cushingoid fat redistribution pattern and associated ...

To localize ectopic gastric mucosa in patients with unexplained gastrointestinal bleeding and diagnose a Meckel diverticulum, 99mTc-pertechnetate imaging is the standard procedure. H2 inhibitor ...

Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) with gated SPECT makes up approximately 40%–60% of procedures performed daily in nuclear medicine. More than 11 million MPI scans are performed annually in the ...