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Editorial
. 2020 Jul;47(7):1620-1622.
doi: 10.1007/s00259-020-04799-7.

Nuclear medicine in responding to global pandemic COVID-19-American College of Nuclear Medicine member experience

Yang Lu  1 , Sean Xuexian Yan  2 , Xiaoli Lan  3 , Xiaohua Zhu  4 , Homer A Macapinlac  5
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Editorial

Nuclear medicine in responding to global pandemic COVID-19-American College of Nuclear Medicine member experience

Yang Lu et al. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2020 Jul.

Abstract

In the global pandemic COVID-19, it is important for everyone including nuclear medicine personnel to know how to stop transmission and contain and prevent the spread of COVID-19. Here, we summarize our American College of Nuclear Medicine members' experiences from Wuhan, China; Singapore; and the USA, so to provide advice to the nuclear medicine personnel for their clinical practice and management strategies in responding to COVID-19.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Protection measures in the procedures of nuclear medical imaging
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