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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Given the close interpersonal nature of the student–clinical instructor (CI) relationship and the unpredictable and often stressful clinical environment in which they interact with one another, it is ...

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 ...

DISCUSSION. The most common causes of uptake in the spleen on the bone scan are hemosiderosis, hemochromatosis, and sickle cell disease. Some of the uncommon causes of splenic uptake are neoplastic ...

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 ...

Many benign bone lesions mimic skeletal metastases from thyroid cancer on imaging and even may have high metabolic uptake on 18F-FDG PET/CT. It becomes crucial to distinguish these hypermetabolic ...

Clinical Indications. The primary clinical indication for Technegas ventilation is in conjunction with 99m Tc-macroaggregated albumin perfusion lung imaging to evaluate suspected pulmonary embolism.

mouse tail-vein injections; mouse imaging; microPET; quantitative PET; The use of small-animal PET for molecular imaging in mice for preclinical research has been shown to be a valuable tool and is ...