From the June 2013 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Meetings with several key government agencies—including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Food and Drug Administration, Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services—and Capitol Hill staff will be arranged in the coming months to discuss dose optimization. Discussions are also underway to consider the development of a national dose index registry for nuclear medicine and molecular imaging.
The society will develop courses on the topic and will offer them at its Mid-Winter Meeting, at Annual Meeting and at chapter meetings. Webinars, online lectures and sample cases will also be created, as well as self-assessment programs and a Part IV Maintenance of Certification program.
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In addition to these activities, SNMMI will continue to actively participate in Image Gently and Image Wisely. SNMMI will also work with other groups to help advance understanding of dose optimization, including the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance and the American College of Cardiology.
Radiation dose for all nuclear medicine and molecular imaging procedures should be optimized by ensuring that the patient receives the smallest possible amount of radiopharmaceutical that will provide the necessary diagnostic information. We look forward to working with all members of the nuclear medicine and molecular imaging field to achieve this.
About the author: Frederic H. Fahey, DSc, FACR, FAAPM, serves as the Director of Nuclear Medicine Physics and PET at Boston Children's Hospital, and is an associate professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. He is the past president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. Fahey has written over 70 journal articles and published 18 book chapters and serves as an expert consultant for the International Atomic Energy Agency. He is currently president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
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