Appropriate Use Criteria for Nuclear Medicine in the Evaluation and Treatment of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

• DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.119.240945
• Publication Date: 2020-03-02T19:15:21Z
• Authors: Kevin J. Donohoe; Jennifer Aloff; Anca M. Avram; K.G. Bennet; Luca Giovanella; Bennett Greenspan; Seza Gulec; Aamna Hassan; Richard T. Kloos; Carmen C. Solórzano; Brendan C. Stack; Mark Tulchinsky; Robert Michael Tu...; Douglas Van Nostrand; Jason A. Wexler
• Keywords: Diagnostic Imaging; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Humans; Thyroid Neoplasms; Nuclear Medicine; Reference Standards; Radiometry; Neoplasm Staging; 3. Good health

Nuclear medicine is an essential tool in the delivery of high-quality medical care, going beyond simple anatomic imaging to the use of physiologic processes for both imaging and therapy. One of the first uses of nuclear medicine techniques occurred in the 1930s to demonstrate the physiology of