Because of the penetrating ability of the radiation used in nuclear medicine, metallic lead is widely used as radiation shielding. However, this shielding may present an insidious health hazard ...

The purpose of this guideline is to assist nuclear medicine practitioners in recommending, performing, interpreting, and reporting the results of gastric-emptying and motility studies in adults.

The aim of this paper is to propose a partitioned-image filtering technique that is a new way of reducing the Gibbs phenomenon in filtered images. Methods: This technique relies on exploiting the ...

This article addresses the emerging technology of PET coupled with MRI, or PET/MRI, which could become the technology of choice in the future for many reasons. Some of these reasons will be discussed, ...

This article was written to give health-care providers working in the field of nuclear medicine some background information on pediatric PET/CT. Specifically, it provides information regarding patient ...

Quantification of PET data is important in staging disease, monitoring disease status, and assessing treatment response (1–4). The presence of respiratory motion during PET can cause blurring of the ...

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The transit of radioactive tracers in human systems provides information of physiologic and diagnostic importance. A simple, nontechnical proof is offered for the formula for computation of mean ...

OBJECTIVE: A review of the English language literature was performed to determine the sensitivity and specificity of morphine sulfate-augmented hepatobiliary imaging for acute cholecystitis. Twenty ...