OBJECTIVE To investigate the outpatient access to nuclear medicine procedures by means of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS), analyzing the correspondence between data provided by this system and those from Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear (CNEN) (National Commission of Nuclear Energy). MATERIALS AND METHODS Data provided by Datasus regarding number of scintillation chambers, outpa...

Bangladesh is one of the smaller states in Asia. But it has a long and rich history of nuclear medicine for over sixty years. The progress in science and technology is always challenging in a developing country. In 1958, work for the first Nuclear Medicine facility was commenced in Dhaka in a tin-shed known as ‘Radioisotope Centre’ and was officially inaugurated in 1962. Since the late 50s of t...

Objective: This review is a discussion of computer processing methods for modern nuclear medicine images. Methods: Basic image processing and quantification techniques are described, and their application to specific nuclear medicine studies is presented. Generation and use of regions of interest, time-activity curves, tomographic reconstruction and oblique reformatting are all addressed, as we...

introduction: nowadays, science mapping is considered an excellent technique for decision-makers to find solutions for problems in research planning and development. in this work, we aimed to depict a science map of “radiology, nuclear medicine, and medical imaging” in iran. methods: all publications indexed in thomson reuters web of science database in the fields mentioned above with at least ...

introduction: scattered photon is one of the main defects that degrade the quality and quantitative accuracy of nuclear medicine images. accurate estimation of scatter in projection data of spect is computationally extremely demanding for activity distribution in uniform and non-uniform dense media. methods: the objective of this paper is to develop and validate a scatter correction technique t...

introduction: in the current study, we compared the h-indices of web of science (wos), scopus, and gs of the iranian nuclear medicine scientists methods: full time members of two major nuclear medicine research centers of iran with more than 5 year of experience (nuclear medicine research center of mashhad university of medical sciences, and research institute for nuclear medicine of tehran uni...

introduction: in the current study, we compared the h-indices of web of science (wos), scopus, and gs of the iranian nuclear medicine scientists methods: full time members of two major nuclear medicine research centers of iran with more than 5 year of experience (nuclear medicine research center of mashhad university of medical sciences, and research institute for nuclear medicine of tehran uni...

UNLABELLED Current radiation protection recommendations do not provide clear guidelines or advice on pregnancy screening strategies for diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures. Previous studies have reported on variations in current practice for pregnancy screening before diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures. The development of consensus statements aims to provide a consistent approach and ass...

objective(s): diagnostic nuclear medicine is being increasingly employed in clinical practice with the advent of new technologies and radiopharmaceuticals. the report of the prevalence of a certain disease is important for assessing the quality of that article. therefore, this study was performed to evaluate the quality of published nuclear medicine articles and determine the frequency of repor...

Since the first tracer study by George C. de Hevesy in 1923, in which he used the tracer principle to study the absorption and translocation of lead nitrate with Pb-212 (1), radionuclides have been used both in vitro and in vivo to trace various biologic processes. The radioisotopes of iodine in particular have played an important role in the early development of nuclear medicine since their us...