Practice Management

Procedure Guidelines

The procedure guidelines help to identify those elements of the procedure that are most important in obtaining a high-quality examination, while simultaneously controlling costs. Use of standardized procedures will increase the applicability of clinical research among multiple institutions, in turn, increasing the value of research studies, particularly in the field of technology assessment.

The Procedure Guidelines Committee is continually developing new guidelines and reviewing and updating existing guidelines. If you have specific comments or questions on the content of any of the guidelines, or if you have suggestions for new guidelines that you feel should be written, please contact the Committee at hpra@snm.org. All comments will be considered in the guideline development process.

Cardiac
Date Approved Title
9/1/2008 Adobe Portable Document Format Myocardial Perfusion Imaging 3.3
6/15/2002 Adobe Portable Document Format Gated Equilibrium Radionuclide Ventriculography 3.0
Endocrine
Date Approved Title
9/5/2006 Adobe Portable Document Format Scintigraphy for Differentiated Papillary and Follicular Thyroid Cancer
9/5/2006 Adobe Portable Document Format Thyroid Uptake Measurement 3.0
6/2/2004 Adobe Portable Document Format Parathyroid Scintigraphy 3.0
2/7/1999 Adobe Portable Document Format Thyroid Scintigraphy 2.0
Gastrointestinal
Date Approved Title
6/4/2010 Adobe Portable Document Format Hepatobiliary Scintigraphy 4.0
2/8/2009 Adobe Portable Document Format Gastric Emptying 3.0
6/20/2003 Adobe Portable Document Format Hepatic and Splenic Imaging 3.0
6/23/2001 Adobe Portable Document Format C-14 Urea Breath Test 3.0
2/7/1999 Adobe Portable Document Format Gastrointestinal Bleeding/Meckel's Diverticulum Scintigraphy 1.0
General
Date Approved Title
6/4/2010 Adobe Portable Document Format General Imaging 5.0
1/30/2010 Adobe Portable Document Format Guideline Development 4.0
2/7/2008 Adobe Portable Document Format Use of Radiopharmaceuticals 4.0
6/20/2003 Adobe Portable Document Format Performance and Responsibility Guidelines for NMT
6/15/2002 Adobe Portable Document Format Telenuclear Medicine 1.0
Genitourinary
Date Approved Title
6/20/2003 Adobe Portable Document Format Diagnosis of Renovascular Hypertension 3.0
Infection
Date Approved Title
6/2/2004 Adobe Portable Document Format Gallium Scintigraphy in Inflammation 3.0
6/2/2004 Adobe Portable Document Format Tc-99m Exametazime (HMPAO)-Labeled Leukocyte Scintigraphy for Suspected Infection/Inflammation 3.0
6/2/2004 Adobe Portable Document Format In-111 Leukocyte Scintigraphy for Suspected Infection/Inflammation 3.0
Musculoskeletal
Date Approved Title
6/4/2010 Adobe Portable Document Format Sodium 18-F Fluoride with PET/CT Bone Scans 1.0
6/20/2003 Adobe Portable Document Format Bone Scintigraphy 3.0
Neurology
Date Approved Title
2/8/2009 Adobe Portable Document Format FDG-PET Brain Imaging 1.0
2/8/2009 Adobe Portable Document Format Brain Perfusion Single Proton Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) Using Tc-99m Radiopharmaceuticals 3.0
2/25/2003 Adobe Portable Document Format Brain Death Scintigraphy 1.0
Oncology
Date Approved Title
6/4/2010 Adobe Portable Document Format Breast Scintigraphy with Breast-Specific Gamma Cameras 1.0
4/3/2006 Adobe Portable Document Format Procedure Guideline for SPECT/CT Imaging 1.0
2/11/2006 Adobe Portable Document Format Procedure Guidelines for Tumor Imaging with 18F-FDG PET/CT 1.0
9/17/2005 Adobe Portable Document Format Therapy of Thyroid Disease with Iodine-131 (Sodium Iodide) 2.0
6/2/2004 Adobe Portable Document Format Breast Scintigraphy 2.0
1/25/2003 Adobe Portable Document Format Palliative Treatment for Painful Bone Metastases 3.0
6/15/2002 Adobe Portable Document Format Lymphoscintigraphy and the Use of Intraoperative Gamma Probe for Sentinel Lymph Node Localization in Melanoma of Intermediate Thickness 1.0
6/23/2001 Adobe Portable Document Format Gallium Scintigraphy in the Evaluation of Malignant Disease 3.0
2/21/2001 Adobe Portable Document Format Somatostatin Receptor Scintigraphy with In-111 Pentetreotide 1.0
2/7/1999 Adobe Portable Document Format Tumor Imaging Using F-18 FDG 2.0
Pediatric
Date Approved Title
9/1/2008 Adobe Portable Document Format Diuretic Renography in Children 3.0
6/20/2003 Adobe Portable Document Format Renal Cortical Scintigraphy in Children 3.0
1/25/2003 Adobe Portable Document Format Pediatric Sedation in Nuclear Medicine 3.0
1/25/2003 Adobe Portable Document Format Radionuclide Cystography in Children 3.0
Pulmonary
Date Approved Title
2/7/2004 Adobe Portable Document Format Lung Scintigraphy 3.0