Herein, we report a case of sentinel lymph node mapping in a uterine cervix cancer patient, referring to the nuclear medicine department of our institute. Lymphoscintigraphy images showed inappropriate intra‐cervical injection of radiotracer. Blue dye technique was applied for sentinel lymph node mapping, using intra‐cervical injection of methylene blue. Two blue/cold sentinel lymph nodes, with...

Nuclear medicine imaging has been used to localize infection sites and efforts have been continued to develop modified infection specific radiopharmaceuticals. In this study gemifloxacin as a broad-spectrum quinolone has been labeled with [99mTc (CO)3 (H2O)3]+ core in order to evaluate its feasibility as an infection imaging agent for in vivo use. The stability of radioconjugate was checked in ...

Despite the long history of the worldwide use of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, a wide spectrum of adverse reactions has been observed in a small proportion of immunized infants; the most severe complication, disseminated BCGitis, is often fatal but exceedingly rare and is considered to result from host immunodeficiency. At present, CT scan, ultrasound, X-ray and bone marrow aspi...

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Department of Nuclear Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Lung-Tan, Taiwan Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Taoyuan...

background: hot lab is a specially designed room in a nuclear medicine hospital where the radiopharmaceuticals are delivered, stored and prepared for dispensing. 99mo/99mtc-generator is the major source in the hot lab used for various medical imaging. it is important to maintain a standard for hot lab procedures to optimize the patient care and minimize radiation exposure to all nuclear medicin...

* Radiopharmaceuticals Chemistry Section, Radiochemistry and Isotope Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai-400085, Email: [email protected] uclear medicine’ is the medical specialty, which utilizes the nuclear properties of radioactive substances in diagnosis, therapy and research to evaluate metabolic, physiologic and pathologic conditions of human body. As an integral part of p...

The American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM) was recognized as an independent medical specialty board in 1971 and was the first conjoint board of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). The conjoint board was sponsored by the American Board of Internal Medicine (therapies), the American Board of Pathology (radioimmunoassay), the American Board of Radiology (ABR) (diagnostic imaging),...