Nuclear Medicine Technology: Procedures and Quick Reference

Staff and patient absorbed doses due to diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures

Background: Annual patient effective dose equivalent can be considered as a quantitative physical parameter describing the activities performed in each nuclear medicine department. Annual staff dose equivalent could be also considered as a parameter describing the amount of radiation risk for performing the activities. We calculated the staff to patient dose equivalent ratio to be used as a phy...

Lippincott's Quick Reference Book for Medicine and Surgery

Procedures of choice in renal nuclear medicine.

The uronephrologic applications of nuclear medicine have reached a stage of maturity where procedures of choice for many specific clinical problems can be identified. This review attempts to achieve this aim as objectively as possible. It must be emphasized that the opinions expressed here are those of the author and in many areas there may be a lack of consensus.

Cryptography and security: Quick reference

Part II Themes Communication in the presence of an adversary. Encryption; efficiency of encryption: important due to pervasive communication; Batch verification. Authentication. Key distribution. Access control. Crypto-analysis: Break hardness assumptions used in cryptography. Make better proofs of security. Proving the security of protocols. Code obfuscation: Hide your intent. 0 knowledge proo...

Pediatric nuclear medicine, Part II: Common procedures and considerations.

OBJECTIVE This paper introduces technologists to pediatric nuclear medicine applications as well as serves as a review of the principles of pediatric imaging for more experienced technologists. After reading this article the nuclear medicine technologist should be able to: (a) identify pediatric populations commonly evaluated with nuclear medicine procedures; (b) state the indications for perfo...