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Global Impact of COVID-19 on Nuclear Medicine Departments: An International Survey in April 2020

Lutz S. Freudenberg, Diana Paez, Francesco Giammarile, Juliano Cerci, Moshe Modiselle, Thomas N.B. Pascual, Noura El-Haj, Pilar Orellana, Yaroslav Pynda, Ignasi Carrió, Stefano Fanti, Cristina Matushita and Ken Herrmann
Journal of Nuclear Medicine September 2020, 61 (9) 1278-1283; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.120.249821
Lutz S. Freudenberg
1ZRN Rheinland and ZRN MVZ GmbH, Korschenbroich, Germany
2Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
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Diana Paez
3Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
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Francesco Giammarile
3Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
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Juliano Cerci
4PET/CT Department at Quanta Diagnostics and Therapy, Curitiba, Brazil
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Moshe Modiselle
5KVNR Nuclear and Molecular Medicine, Pretoria, South Africa
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Thomas N.B. Pascual
6Philippine Nuclear Research Institute, Quezon City, Philippines
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Noura El-Haj
3Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
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Pilar Orellana
3Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
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Yaroslav Pynda
3Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
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Ignasi Carrió
7Nuclear Medicine Department, Hospital Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
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Stefano Fanti
8Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, S. Orsola Hospital University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; and
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Cristina Matushita
9Instituto do Cérebro do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Ken Herrmann
2Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
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    Decrease in nuclear medicine therapies globally and by regional subgroups.

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    Disruption in the supply of essential materials. The x-axis denotates the number of participants.

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Global Impact of COVID-19 on Nuclear Medicine Departments: An International Survey in April 2020
Lutz S. Freudenberg, Diana Paez, Francesco Giammarile, Juliano Cerci, Moshe Modiselle, Thomas N.B. Pascual, Noura El-Haj, Pilar Orellana, Yaroslav Pynda, Ignasi Carrió, Stefano Fanti, Cristina Matushita, Ken Herrmann
Journal of Nuclear Medicine Sep 2020, 61 (9) 1278-1283; DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.120.249821

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