In the past 10 years at our university hospital, 202 incident reports related to tasks performed by radiological technologists were posted. In order to investigate the causes and trends of these incidents, we classified the incident reports into four groups based on the event content, level of harm caused to the patient, years of experience of the concerned radiological technologist, and releva...

Objective: PET isotopes are being used more commonly in nuclear medicine. This paper introduces the nuclear medicine technologist to the use of PET imaging. The major focus of this article is on the isotopes that are used in this modality and how they differ from traditional isotopes. The nuclear medicine technologist will become familiar with PET isotopes by reading about PET history, the prod...

Obtaining a quality EEG in the intensive care unit (ICU) is a very rewarding experience for the EEG technologist. "Quality" is defined as a measure of excellence or state of being free from defects. It takes more than knowing how to obtain a quality record; it takes hands-on experience and time. Electroencephalography is a valuable neurodiagnostic tool in critically ill patients. However, the I...

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background: although ionizing radiation is widely used to diagnose many diseases, the relevant hazards are known to be as an important limitation of its application. it is believed that the awareness of ionizing radiation dose values is one of the main stages in patient's radiation protection. the purpose of this study has been to investigate the level of physicians' knowledge about r...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to introduce the nuclear medicine technologist to the field of epidemiology. There are many applications of epidemiology in nuclear medicine, including research studies that deal with the causes of disease or ways to prevent disease from occurring and investigating the possible effects of ionizing radiation on occupational workers and the general public....

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this paper is to introduce technologists to the basic principles of PET imaging and to the instrumentation used to acquire PET data. PET imaging is currently being done on a variety of imaging system types, and the technologist will be introduced to these systems and learn about the basic physical image-degrading factors in PET. After reading this article, the technolog...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this paper is to introduce the nuclear medicine technologist to a new radiopharmaceutical, 99mTc-apcitide, for imaging acute venous thrombosis. After reading this paper, the technologist should be able to: (a) describe patient preparation for imaging with 99mTc-apcitide; (b) state the amount of 99mTc-apcitide that is administered to patients for imaging acute venous thr...