European Nuclear Medicine Guide

A joint publication by EANM and UEMS-EBNM

2026 edition Editorial Board: Paolo Castellucci (Chair), Desiree Deandreis, Siroos Mirzaei, John Prior, Bernhard Sattler, and Christian Schütze.
2020 edition Editorial Board: Paolo Castellucci (Chair), Desiree Deandreis, Aron K.Krizsan, Siroos Mirzaei, John Prior, and Bernhard Sattler.
2018 edition edited by: Roland Hustinx and Kristoff Muylle.

Table of Contents

• A

  Scientific Basis of Nuclear Medicine
  1.

  Biology for Nuclear Medicine Physicians

  2.

  Physiology, Pathology & Pathophysiology

  3.

  Physics

  4.

  Radiobiology

  5.

  Radiation Protection

  6.

  Chemistry and Radiochemistry

  7.

  Radiopharmacy

  8.

  Clinical Radiopharmacology and Tracer Kinetic Modelling

  9.

  Principles of Statistics

  10.

  Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation

  11.

  Principles for Data Acquisition and Image Processing Techniques in Nuclear Medicine

  12.

  Quantitative Techniques in Nuclear Medicine

  13.

  Principles of DXA

  14.

  Principles of Radiology Modalities: CT Imaging

  15.

  Principles of Radiology Modalities: Magnetic Resonance Imaging

  16.

  General Principles of Multimodality Imaging

  17.

  Principles of Multimodality Imaging: SPECT/CT

  18.

  Principles of Multimodality Imaging: PET/CT

  19.

  Principles of multimodality imaging: PET/MR

  20.

  Artificial Intelligence, Machine Deep Learning and Radiomics

  21.

  Quality control

  22.

  Authors and Contributors
• B

  Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine
  1.

  Abbreviations

  2.

  Cardiovascular

  3.

  Central Nervous System

  4.

  Bone Imaging

  5.

  Respiratory

  6.

  Gastrointestinal

  7.

  Nephro-Urinary

  8.

  Endocrine

  9.

  Hematopoietic/Lymphatic

  10.

  Oncology

  11.

  Inflammation/Infection

  12.

  Promising Tracers for the Next Few Years

  13.

  Clinical Developments

  14.

  Authors and Contributors
• C

  Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine
  1.

  Introduction

  2.

  Palliation of Painful Bone Metastases

  3.

  Treatment of Sclerotic Metastases

  4.

  Radiosynoviorthesis

  5.

  Thyroid Diseases

  6.

  Malignant Neural Crest Tumors (Neuroblastoma and Pheochromocytoma)

  7.

  Neuroendocrine Tumors

  8.

  Primary and Secondary Hepatic Malignancies

  9.

  Radioimmunotherapy for non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

  10.

  PSMA-Targeted Internal Radiotherapy

  11.

  Interventional Nuclear Medicine

  12.

  Authors and Contributors
• D

  Accreditation - CME/CPD
  1.

  Accreditation - CME/CPD