The purpose of this review is to familiarize the reader with aspects of PET that are important to its performance in pediatric patients. Recognition of differences in applying PET technology to ...

SPECT images are degraded by attenuation, collimator blurring, detector blurring, and photon scatter. Several studies have shown that compensations for these degradations can improve quantitative ...

The number of cases of dementia has dramatically increased over the last decade. Imaging of the brain with PET has been used for many years, but in the past decade the radiopharmaceuticals and ...

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology April 2024, jnmt.123.266836; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2967/jnmt.123.266836 ...

After therapeutic pelvic radiation for malignancy such as prostate cancer, patients are at greater risk for spontaneous ureteral rupture. Bladder outlet obstruction and other more proximal causes of ...

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology April 2024, jnmt.123.266785; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2967/jnmt.123.266785 ...

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology April 2024, jnmt.123.266836; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2967/jnmt.123.266836 ...

In the spring and summer of 2006, the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the School of Public Health, University at Albany (the Center), under a contract with the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) ...

The development of an educational program and credentialing structure to support and recognize an advanced level of the practice of nuclear medicine technology is now underway. This work parallels the ...

One of the most exciting career advancement opportunities in recent times has been the development of the advanced practice career track for nuclear medicine technologists. The office at the ...

Shortly before the time of this writing, Michael Ter-Pogossian, PhD, passed away at the age of 71. He was considered by many to be the father of PET and is best known for experiments beginning in the ...