Nuclear Diplomacy: Three instances L V Krishnan, NIAS RIS, April 22 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Nuclear Diplomacy: Three instances L V Krishnan, NIAS RIS, April 22 2019 1 First Edition: 1956 D S Kothari (Two years before the US AEC published Effects of Nuclear Weapons including hydrogen bombs.) Soon translated into German,
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UN sustainable Development Goal 3 Every 2 seconds someone aged 30 to 70 years dies prematurely from noncommunicable diseases
By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being
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Nuclear medicine is a rapidly growing discipline employing advanced technology. Medical practice gets significant benefit from molecular imaging procedures such as SPECT, PET, and from novel hybrid techniques like SPECT/CT and PET/CT that provide unique functional and anatomical information relevant for patient management and biomedical
fast, with continuous developing approaches aimed to fight several forms of cancer. However, the reality today is that these technologies are not evenly distributed between countries.
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Nuclear medicine has an important role in oncology, both in the diagnostic/prognostic management of cancers, and in therapy. With the exceptions of specific types of tumour, NM has limited role as first-line diagnostic procedure, instead it’s fundamental in the staging assessment of the patients after diagnosis of cancer has been
and/or to select the most appropriate treatment(s) (surgery, adjuvant or neo-adjuvant therapy, combined regimens). In this context, PET is the most important NM applications and it has become standard of practice for many types of cancer.
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Nuclear Cardiology is a well established technique to assess myocardial perfusion and ventricular function, and its role as a non invasive methodology for the characterization of a variety of cardiac conditions, especially coronary artery disease (CAD) has been extensively evaluated and validated in clinical practice. Nuclear cardiology uses the so-called emission tomography imaging method (single-photon emission computed tomography or SPECT, and more recently positron emission tomography or PET) which renders three-dimensional images depicting the distribution of a radioactive compound in the heart which was previously administered intravenously at rest or during a stress test. Nuclear cardiology is one of the most commonly used procedures for detecting and determining the severity of CAD. It is sensitive, accurate, and cost-effective, and gives excellent prognostic information that is not provided by other diagnostic modalities, useful for patient management based on risk-stratification. Pulmonary scintigraphy is extensively used for the evaluation of lung perfusion and ventilation, and has a principal role in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE). Despite recent advances in other imaging modalities such as CT pulmonary angiography, the radionuclide technique is considered to have superior sensitivity although with limitations in specificity, being nevertheless the method of choice for ruling out PE.
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Cardiac nuclear medicine imaging is also performed: to visualize blood flow patterns to the heart walls, called a myocardial perfusion scan. to evaluate the presence and extent of suspected or known coronary artery disease. to determine the extent of injury to the heart following a heart attack, or myocardial infarction. to evaluate the results of bypass surgery or other revascularization procedures designed to restore blood supply to the heart. in conjunction with an electrocardiogram (ECG), to evaluate heart-wall movement and overall heart function with a technique called cardiac gating.
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