This resources manual provides comprehensive guidance at an international level in many aspects of nuclear medicine practice, including education, training, facilities and equipment, quality systems, and radiopharmacy and clinical practice. The manual has been written with routine clinical practice in mind and therefore provides advice on many practical points that should help both new and also more developed nuclear medicine centers. The new centers will find specific information essential for setting up the provision of the service, and the more developed centers will find numerous updated protocols and suggestions on improving operational performance.

This manual will be of interest to nuclear medicine physicians, radiologists, medical educationalists, diagnostic center managers, medical physicists, medical technologists, radiopharmacists, specialist nurses, clinical scientists, laboratory scientists, and those engaged in high quality systems in public health.