Editorial

Editorial Editorial (1523) Total Article Views Authors: Gayed IW Published Date June 2011 Volume 2011:1 Pages 9 - 10 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RRNM.S18855 Isis W Gayed Nuclear Medicine Section, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional imaging, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX, USA The field of nuclear medicine has witnessed major advances in imaging technology and radiopharmaceuticals development in a relatively short time interval. An impressive leap has occurred between the invention of the first gamma camera by Anger in 19571 to the presently widely available hybrid technology of positron emission tomography - computed tomography (PET-CT) and single-photon emission computed tomography - computer tomography (SPECT-CT).2 The field is yet to witness the impact of the emerging PET-magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners. The variability of available radiopharmaceuticals to evaluate various body functions adds to the uniqueness of this field of functional imaging. Post to: Cannotea Citeulike Del.icio.us Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Other articles by Dr Isis Gayed Impact of bone SPECT-CT imaging on evaluation of lower extremities' abnormalities Readers of this article also read: Local anesthetic failure associated with inflammation: verification of the acidosis mechanism and the hypothetic participation of inflammatory peroxynitrite Imaging of peripheral vascular disease Narcissistic rage: The Achilles’ heel of the patient with chronic physical illness Food nanotechnology – an overview Morgellons disease: Analysis of a population with clinically confirmed microscopic subcutaneous fibers of unknown etiology Subset-directed antiviral treatment of 142 herpesvirus patients with chronic fatigue syndrome Health literacy and health seeking behavior among older men in a middle-income nation Epigenomics in cancer management Evaluation of in-vitro antibiotic susceptibility of different morphological forms of Borrelia burgdorferi Intercellular cancer collisions generate an ejected crystal comet tail effect with fractal interface embryoid body reassembly transformation