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 ...
Pyelonephritis is a bacterial infection of the kidneys. The estimated annual incidence of pyelonephritis is 10.5 million to 25.9 million cases globally (1–3). It is more commonly seen in children, ...
This case study illustrates the pattern and significance of the pinwheel sign, a SPECT artifact from rotational head motion that can complicate the diagnosis of Parkinson disease. Monitoring the ...
Because of the difficulty often encountered in deciding whether a patient’s symptoms originate in the upper or lower gastrointestinal tract, gastrointestinal transit scintigraphy is a uniquely suited ...
Objective:Our objective was to show the advantages of performing whole-body lymphoscintigraphy using transmission sources. This technique should decrease scanning time, help locate the sentinel lymph ...
The use of PET in Australia has grown rapidly. We conducted a prospective study of the radiation exposure of technologists working in PET and evaluated the occupational radiation dose after ...
Major pharmaceutical companies are investing heavily in nuclear medicine theranostics, including mass-market television and print campaigns that highlight the precision tools we provide to physicians.
The Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear (National Commission for Nuclear Energy), or CNEN, was created in 1956 (decree 40.110 of October 10, 1956) to be responsible for all nuclear activities in ...
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 ...
Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology September 2025, jnmt.125.270100; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2967/jnmt.125.270100 ...
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 ...
Iterative reconstruction algorithms that model Poisson statistics have become the standard for routine clinical PET imaging. Maximum-likelihood expectation maximization (MLEM) is the foundational ...
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