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Promotion of Nuclear Medicine-Related Sciences in Developing Countries

verfasst von: Dong Soo Lee, Yun-Sang Lee, Jae Sung Lee, Min Seok Suh

Erschienen in: Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Ausgabe 2/2019

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The prosperity of nuclear medicine depends on a variety of factors in many countries. The success of nuclear medicine of the past 2 decades in North America was based on the new instruments developed and installed widely in many institutions, and of course the good availability of 99mTc and [18F]FDG. Mostly, the wide use of torso PET made the success of 10 million cases of nuclear medicine procedures annually and another 10 million cases of myocardial SPECT. This was equivalent to 6,000 procedures per million. The relationship between the number of clinical volume of nuclear medicine procedures and gross domestic products (GDPs) of the advanced countries are quite proportional in their log-log relationship (Fig. 1). The United States of America (USA) led the era of hybrid imaging mostly of PET/CT, culminating in the introduction of PET/MRI. We think that this evoked great concern among radiologists while they were also pursuing the use of hybrid imaging. The job market in the USA forced nuclear medicine physicians to become half nuclear medicine physicians and half radiologists. There was even a trial integration of the nuclear medicine board and the radiology board, making the nuclear medicine board obsolete. The training system was already mixed between radiology and nuclear medicine in the USA so that 1 year or less would be sufficient to produce radiologists who can do the role of the nuclear medicine physician. Fortunately, after serious discussion among the leaders of nuclear medicine in the USA, the movement of integrating nuclear medicine board training into that of radiology was given up several years ago. However, the number of new applicants for nuclear medicine board training decreased to two-thirds, job opportunities showed a gradually decreasing tendency, and industry support became reduced. The recent decline of clinical nuclear medicine is related to the new trend of imaging and biomarker developments on a macroscopic time scale. However, the great progress of nuclear medicine during the 1990s and new millennium are derived from the innovative contribution of the best intellects of nuclear medicine physicists and radiopharmaceutical scientists.
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Titel
Promotion of Nuclear Medicine-Related Sciences in Developing Countries
verfasst von
Dong Soo Lee
Yun-Sang Lee
Jae Sung Lee
Min Seok Suh
Publikationsdatum
08.04.2019
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging / Ausgabe 2/2019
Print ISSN: 1869-3474
Elektronische ISSN: 1869-3482
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13139-019-00583-0

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