Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40996318›Full record

ReviewThe British journal of radiology2026

Theranostics and molecular imaging are taking off: current situation, requirements and how to train more physicians to fill the gap. A perspective from three different continents.

Patrick Veit-Haibach, Winnie Lam, Rebecca K S Wong, Gary J R Cook

Abstract readReview
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Review in The British journal of radiology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Patrick Veit-HaibachUniversity Medical Imaging Toronto, Toronto Joint Department Medical Imaging, University Health Network, Sinai Health System, Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5G 2N2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-8607-2667
Winnie LamDivision of Radiological Sciences, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, 169608, Singapore.
Rebecca K S WongRadiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, University Health Network, Toronto, M5G 2M9, Canada.
Gary J R CookDepartment of Cancer Imaging, KCL School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences and King's College London and Guy's & St Thomas' PET Centre, Lambeth Wing, St Thomas' Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The field of radiopharmaceuticals and therapies is currently rapidly increasing. However, there is no consensus about how to address the expected shortage of qualified personnel to deliver such therapies. This commentary gives an overview of the current situation in different exemplary jurisdictions and also tries to show possible paths forward and how to prepare the upcoming physician's generation for these radiopharmaceutical therapies.

Indexed as

Molecular ImagingPhysiciansRadiopharmaceuticalsTheranostic NanomedicineHumansRadiopharmaceuticalsphysician trainingradiopharmaceuticaltheranostic

Identifiers

PMID40996318
PMCPMC13274638

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.