Review Article

Tele-nuclear medicine

Nathanael Sabbah, Sinclair Wynchank
South African Journal of Radiology | Vol 18, No 1 | a595 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajr.v18i1.595 | © 2014 Nathanael Sabbah, Sinclair Wynchank | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 05 March 2014 | Published: 04 July 2014

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Nathanael Sabbah, Department of Nuclear Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, United States of America
Sinclair Wynchank, Innovation Centre, Medical Research Council, South Africa; Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Abstract

This article presents a description of tele-nuclear medicine and, after outlining its history, a wide, representative range of its applications. Tele-nuclear medicine has benefited greatly from technological progress, which for several decades has provided greater data transfer rates and storage capacity at steadily decreasing cost. Differences in the practice of nuclear medicine between developed and developing countries arise mainly from disparities in their available infrastructure, funding and education levels of personnel involved. Consequently there are different emphases in their tele-nuclear medicine, which are elaborated. It is concluded that tele-nuclear medicine is important for all countries, but the emphasis on its application may differ between developed and developing nations, with an emphasis on distance learning in the latter.

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