Abstract：
:Concern about the spread of infections in the hospital setting has prompted regulatory agencies to mandate infection control standards. Each hospital department is required to have written policies and procedures which describe measures to prevent and control the spread of nosocomial infections (hospital acquired infections), along with quality assurance programs to assure that procedures are followed. The Department of Nuclear Medicine, as other departments, should have procedures which address special precautions for the prevention of nosocomial infections. This article will focus on a new approach to prevent nosocomial infections, guidelines for handling patients and contaminated equipment, and the importance of quality assurance activities to monitor compliance to established standards. An opening discussion on the routes of transmission, and factors necessary for transmission of infection, will serve as a review to assist with understanding the concept for handling the hospitalized patient in a Nuclear Medicine setting.
journal_name
Semin Nucl Medjournal_title
Seminars in nuclear medicineauthors
Adams A,Egan Adoi
10.1016/s0001-2998(88)80043-6subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1988-10-01 00:00:00pages
345-9issue
4eissn
0001-2998issn
1558-4623pii
S0001-2998(88)80043-6journal_volume
18pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:The past several years have seen marked advances in technetium/rhenium chemistry applicable to the preparation of new 99mTc-labeled radiopharmaceuticals. This article focuses on recent developments in technetium chemistry, including the preparation of "3 + 1" complexes, the preparation and use of (99mTc[CO]3)+ complex...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/snuc.2001.26182
更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In order to assess the role of 99mTc-iminodiacetic acid (IDA) cholescintigraphy in evaluating postoperative patients, a total of 213 studies were performed in 189 patients over a 3-year time period. Of these, 130 studies were obtained in 125 cases with signs and/or symptoms suggesting postcholecystectomy syndrome. A n...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0001-2998(82)80027-5
更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Detection of acute myocardial infarction as an area of increased activity has intrigued investigators for some time. Initial attempts with 203Hg-chlormerodrin and 203Hg-fluorescein analogues were successful in man. More recently, however, successful imaging of the acute myocardial infarct has been achieved with severa...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0001-2998(77)80005-6
更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The role of labeled tracers in radioimmunoassay procedures (RIA) and the advantages of the iodine-labeled antigens over 14C or tritium-labeled antigens are discussed. Different methods of labeling with iodine isotopes are presented. The ease with which microgram amounts of hormonal proteins are tagged, achieving high...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0001-2998(75)80030-4
更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The short range and high linear energy transfer of α-particles offer the potential for efficient tumor killing while sparing normal bystander cells. Hematologic malignancies are ideally suited to targeted α-particle therapy (TAT) due to easy accessibility of malignant cells in blood, bone marrow, lymph nodes, and sple...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2019.09.002
更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Myocardial perfusion imaging with 15O-water positron emission tomography (PET) is a validated tool for quantitative measurement of myocardial blood flow (MBF) and myocardial flow reserve (MFR). Current scanner and software technology enable quantification of global and regional MBF in clinical PET myocardial perfusion...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2020.02.011
更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:While 99mTc sulfur colloid imaging, because of its availability and convenience, remains the initial procedure of choice for spleen imaging, selective spleen scanning with damaged 99mTc-labeled RBCs can provide additional information in some cases. These cases include overlapping left hepatic lobe and suspected spleni...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0001-2998(85)80004-0
更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Patients with previously treated thyroid carcinoma require lifelong monitoring for recurrent disease. Two diagnostic tests that play a central role in follow-up of these patients--radioiodine whole body scanning and serum thyroglobulin measurement--are most accurate during thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) stimulation...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/nm.2000.4599
更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Several antineuroblastoma monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) have been described and two have been used in radioimmunoimaging and radioimmunotherapy in patients. MoAb 3F8 is a murine IgG3 antibody specific for the ganglioside GD2. Radioiodine-labeled 3F8 has been shown to specifically target human neuroblastoma in patients...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0001-2998(89)80021-2
更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Radionuclide renal studies are particularly well suited to pediatrics as renal problems in children usually are part of a dynamic process which requires serial assessment. The absence of side-effects and the low radiation dose has added to their popularity in pediatrics. A number of different renal parameters can be e...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0001-2998(82)80015-9
更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This review, examines the indications for and limitations of gallium-67 (67Ga) scanning in the evaluation of patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The imaging protocol, as well as the normal biodistribution of 67Ga and its normal variants are discussed. The diagnostic significance of the different...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0001-2998(88)80037-0
更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Autonomic innervation plays an important role in proper functioning of the cardiovascular system. Altered cardiac sympathetic function is present in a variety of diseases, and can be assessed with radionuclide imaging using sympathetic neurotransmitter analogues. The most studied adrenergic radiotracer is cardiac 123I...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2020.03.001
更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The accumulation of radioactive tracer is associated with specific histological changes. Awareness of these changes permits a more specific interpretation of a positive bone scan, especially when correlating the radionuclide image with the plain radiographs. Increased uptake in the flow phase of an imaging study usual...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0001-2998(97)80003-7
更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most common cancers in men and is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the USA. In the United States, it is the second most frequently diagnosed cancer after skin cancer, and in Europe it is number one. According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 221,000 ...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2015.10.005
更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) of local cerebral glucose utilization is highly sensitive in detecting epileptogenic regions that correspond to electrographic localization in patients with epilepsy. In medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy for which surgical resection of the epileptogenic zone is a therapeuti...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0001-2998(05)80119-9
更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The remarkable progress in immunologic techniques in the development of monoclonal antibodies offers the potential for powerful new tools for the detection of cardiovascular disorders, such as acute myocardial necrosis and acute deep venous thrombosis, in an accurate, safe, and noninvasive manner. Historically the use...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0001-2998(05)80094-7
更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Breast cancer is the most common cause of bone metastases in women. Imaging studies are useful to identify bone involvement and associated complications, for follow-up of disease spread and for the assessment of response to therapy. Bone scintigraphy with (99m)technetium-labeled diphosphonates is most widely used, due...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2009.05.002
更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The diphosphonate bone scan is ideally suited to assess many global, focal or multifocal metabolic bone disorders and there remains a role for conventional bone scintigraphy in metabolic bone disorders at diagnosis, investigation of complications, and treatment response assessment. In contrast, the role of bone scinti...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2009.08.002
更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:FDG is a tracer for visualizing glucose metabolism. PET/CT using FDG is widely used for the diagnosis of cancer, because glycolysis is elevated in cancer cells. Similarly, active inflammatory tissue also exhibits elevated glucose metabolism because of glycolysis in activated macrophages and proliferating fibroblasts. ...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2017.02.005
更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The advantage of immunoscintigraphy over autologous leukocyte techniques in the imaging of infection is the simplicity of its use compared with techniques that require the isolation of autologous white blood cells. The advantage over 99mTc- or 111In-labeled nonspecific human immunoglobulin is the excellent target-to-b...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0001-2998(05)80228-4
更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Malignant endocrine disorders have been an enigma over the last few decades, from genetic, clinical, and imaging perspectives. The detection of the primary tumor and the identification of recurrent disease have been essentially based on various anatomic techniques, with localization procedures extensively developed fo...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/snuc.2001.23530
更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In the past, T3 suppression testing was often required to confirm the presence of autonomous thyroid function in patients with borderline clinical and laboratory findings suggestive of hyperthyroidism or in euthyroid patients with the stigmata of Graves' disease. Similarly, TSH stimulation testing was used to document...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0001-2998(81)80043-8
更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Radiation and concurrent chemoradiation are essential in the treatment of head and neck cancers because they allow a potentially curative organ preservation approach in a manner that greatly affects quality of life. Greater doses of radiation to areas of gross disease have invariably led to greater loco-regional contr...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2007.11.002
更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:More than 7 million stress perfusion studies are performed in the United States annually, 44% with pharmacological vasodilator stress agents. Both adenosine and dipyridamole are nonselective coronary vasodilators that are commonly used for stress perfusion imaging. These agents are safe and provide an effective means ...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2008.12.003
更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Ventilation/Perfusion (V/Q) positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET/CT) is now possible by substituting Technetium-99m (99mTc) with Gallium-68 (68Ga), using the same carrier molecules as conventional V/Q imaging. Ventilation imaging can be performed with 68Ga-carbon nanoparticles using the same synthesis...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2018.10.013
更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Molecular imaging has revolutionized clinical oncology by imaging-specific facets of cancer biology. Through noninvasive measurements of tumor physiology, targeted radiotracers can serve as biomarkers for disease characterization, prognosis, response assessment, and predicting long-term response/survival. In turn, the...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2020.07.002
更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:99mTc-PYP myocardial scintigrams represent a means to detect and localize acute myocardial necrosis. These scintigrams are expected to be abnormal with acute myocardial infarcts of at least 3 grams in weight if serial imaging is utilized and proper attention to technique is provided. Any etiology of myocardial necrosi...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0001-2998(80)80029-8
更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Computer tomography (CT) is a radiological imaging method which yields transverse tomographic images reflecting with high accuracy the spatial distribution of x-ray attenuation in the part examined. The contrast resolution achieved by CT permits the visualization of soft tissue structure heretofore invisible with conv...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0001-2998(77)80013-5
更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Nuclear dacryocystography is simple, relatively harmless method of evaluating patients suspected of having abnormalities of the nasolacrimal drainage system. A group of normal saline containing approximately 100 muCi of 99mTc-pertechnetate is placed on the conjunctiva near the lateral canthus, and serial scintigrams a...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0001-2998(81)80022-0
更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Postsurgical bile leaks can be associated with significant morbidity and even mortality, if not identified and treated at an early phase. Hepatobiliary iminodiacetic acid (HIDA) scan is an important test for detection of bile leaks in the postoperative abdomen. However, the lack of anatomical details on planar images ...
journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2017.06.002
更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00
