Gastric emptying scintigraphy (GES) is frequently performed in nuclear medicine to evaluate gastric motility (1). GES is accomplished by radiolabeling the solid or liquid component of a meal and then ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 has made an impact on the operation of healthcare organizations. HIPAA includes five titles and these regulations are complex.

The combined supine–prone imaging protocol for SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging offers significant advantages over supine imaging alone. By comparing supine and prone images, one can distinguish ...

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 Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) is an international scientific and professional organization founded in 1954 to promote the science, technology, and practical application of nuclear medicine.

The gastric emptying study provides a comprehensive assessment of gastric function and motility using a standardized meal-and-imaging protocol. Evaluation of dyspepsia (pain in the upper abdomen, ...

Cross-use of technology between nuclear medicine and radiology technologists is expanding. The growth of PET/CT and the increasing use of intravenous contrast agents during these procedures bring the ...

Data acquisition is substantially different in PET than it is in planar nuclear medicine and SPECT. There is an entirely different set of definitions and considerations. The objective of this paper is ...

Diuretic renal scintigraphy plays a critical diagnostic role by providing a physiologic means for differentiating between obstructive and nonobstructive hydronephrosis and by assessing the function of ...

Iterative reconstruction algorithms that model Poisson statistics have become the standard for routine clinical PET imaging. Maximum-likelihood expectation maximization (MLEM) is the foundational ...

In 1966, Griffith et al. used “a standard breakfast of ordinary food” labeled with chromium-51 to report the first use of gastric emptying scintigraphy (GES). As the procedure was refined over the ...

Over the past few years, shortages and limited supplies have affected every aspect of our world. Unfortunately, this scarcity has spilled over into the nuclear medicine world with regard to the ...