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ArticleAnnals of nuclear medicine2024

Nuclear medicine practice in Japan: a report of the ninth nationwide survey in 2022.

Atsutaka Okizaki, Yoshihiro Nishiyama, Yoshitaka Inui, Hideki Otsuka, Kentaro Takanami, Masatoyo Nakajo, Koya Nakatani, Munenobu Nogami, Kenji Hirata, Yukito Maeda and 2 more

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Article in Annals of nuclear medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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12 authors at 12 institutions in 1 country.

Atsutaka OkizakiDepartment of Radiology, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan. okizaki@asahikawa-med.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8203-827X
Yoshihiro NishiyamaDepartment of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Miki, Japan.
Yoshitaka InuiDepartment of Radiology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Japan.
Hideki OtsukaDepartment of Medical Imaging/Nuclear Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan.
Kentaro TakanamiDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Masatoyo NakajoDepartment of Radiology, Kagoshima University, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan.
Koya NakataniDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Japan.
Munenobu NogamiDepartment of Radiology, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe/Biomedical Imaging Research Center, University of Fukui, Yoshida, Japan.
Kenji HirataDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
Yukito MaedaDepartment of Radiology, Kagawa University Hospital, Miki, Japan.
Mana YoshimuraDepartment of Radiology, Tokyo Medical University, Shinjuku, Japan.
Hiroshi WakabayashiDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan.
Asahikawa Medical University · JPFujita Health University · JPHokkaido University · JPKagawa University · JPKagawa University Hospital · JPKagoshima University · JPKanazawa University Hospital · JPKurashiki Central Hospital · JPTohoku University · JPTokushima University · JPTokyo Medical University · JPUniversity of Fukui · JP

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Abstract

Subcommittee on Survey of Nuclear Medicine Practice in Japan has performed a nationwide survey of nuclear medicine practice every 5 years since 1982 to survey contemporary nuclear medicine practice and its changes over the years. The subcommittee sent questionnaires, including the number and category of examinations as well as the kind of the radiopharmaceuticals during the 30 days of June 2022 to all nuclear medicine institutes in Japan. The total numbers of them for the year 2022 were estimated depends on the 1-month data. A total of 1095 institutes responded to the survey, including 364 positron emission tomography (PET) centers. The recovery rate was 90.6%. The number of gamma cameras installed was 1299 in total, with 2.5% decrease in 5 years. Dual-head cameras and hybrid SPECT/CT scanners accounted for 83.8% and 35.5%, respectively. The number of single-photon tracer studies in 2022 was 1.11 million which means increase in 2.7% in 5 years. Bone scintigraphy was a leading examination (31.0%), followed by myocardial scintigraphy (27.1%) and cerebral perfusion study (23.8%) in order. The percentage of SPECT studies showed an increase from 63.5% in previous survey to 66.8% in this survey. PET centers have also increased from 389 to 412, as compared with the previous one. One hundred and twenty-two PET centers have installed one or two in-house cyclotrons. Increasing trends of the PET studies were observed from 1992 to 2017, the trend changed and PET studies showed 1.5% decrease in 5 years.

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Nuclear Medicine3-IodobenzylguanidineHumansIodine RadioisotopesJapanMalePandemicsPositron-Emission TomographyRadiopharmaceuticalsSurveys and Questionnaires3-IodobenzylguanidineIodine RadioisotopesRadiopharmaceuticalsJapanNuclear medicine practiceSurvey

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