The purpose of this document is to provide nuclear medicine practitioners with general guidelines on imaging in the practice of nuclear medicine. The guideline includes recommendations common to most nuclear medicine imaging procedures.
Nuclear medicine is the medical specialty that uses the tracer principle, most often with radiopharmaceuticals, to evaluate molecular, metabolic, physiologic and pathologic conditions of the body for the purposes of diagnosis, therapy and research.
The combination of anatomic information from other modalities may complement the information from tracers providing more information than the sum of the two separately.