RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Standardization of Administered Activities in Pediatric Nuclear Medicine: A Report of the First Nuclear Medicine Global Initiative Project, Part 2—Current Standards and the Path Toward Global Standardization
JF Journal of Nuclear Medicine
JO J Nucl Med
FD Society of Nuclear Medicine
SP 1148
OP 1157
DO 10.2967/jnumed.115.169714
VO 57
IS 7
A1 Frederic H. Fahey
A1 Henry Hee-Seung Bom
A1 Arturo Chiti
A1 Yun Young Choi
A1 Gang Huang
A1 Michael Lassmann
A1 Norman Laurin
A1 Fernando Mut
A1 Rodolfo Nuñez-Miller
A1 Darin O’Keeffe
A1 Prasanta Pradhan
A1 Andrew M. Scott
A1 Shaoli Song
A1 Nischal Soni
A1 Mayuki Uchiyama
A1 Luis Vargas
YR 2016
UL http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/57/7/1148.abstract
AB The Nuclear Medicine Global Initiative (NMGI) was formed in 2012 and consists of 13 international organizations with direct involvement in nuclear medicine. The underlying objectives of the NMGI are to promote human health by advancing the field of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, encourage global collaboration in education, and harmonize procedure guidelines and other policies that ultimately lead to improvements in quality and safety in the field throughout the world. For its first project, the NMGI decided to consider the issues involved in the standardization of administered activities in pediatric nuclear medicine. It was decided to divide the final report of this project into 2 parts. Part 1 was published in this journal in the spring of 2015. This article presents part 2 of the final report. It discusses current standards for administered activities in children and adolescents that have been developed by various professional organizations. It also presents an evaluation of the current practice of pediatric nuclear medicine specifically with regard to administered activities as determined by an international survey of 313 nuclear medicine clinics and centers from 29 countries. Lastly, it provides recommendations for a path toward global standardization of the administration of radiopharmaceuticals in children.