The nuclear medicine physician and the PET/CT issue.

To the Editor: After reading your editorial published in the 2nd issue of the Hell J Nucl Med, 2007; 10 (2): 74-78, we would like to express the unanimous opinion of the Greek doctors specializing in Nuclear Medicine, according to which, we consider that for the use and responsibility of the PET/CT dual scanner, the nuclear medicine physician should be the only responsible person and the radiologist should be asked as advisor, when needed. Nuclear Medicine is an independent specialty and we, as specializing nuclear medicine physicians, spend six months of education in the radiology department, where the main equipment in use, of which we become educated, is the CT scanner.