COVID-19 pandemic: guidance for nuclear medicine departments

Affiliations

¹ Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency, PO Box 100, 1400, Vienna, Austria. d.paez@iaea.org.
² Royal Free Hospital, London, UK.
³ Department of Oncology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
⁴ Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London Hospital, London, UK.
⁵ Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital, Vienna, Austria.
⁶ Nuclear Medicine Department, University of Pretoria and Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁷ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Hwasun, South Korea.
⁸ PET/CT Department at Quanta Diagnostics and Therapy, Curitiba, Brazil.
⁹ Humanitas University and Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy.
¹⁰ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Essen, Germany.
¹¹ Department of Molecular Imaging and Therapy, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia.
¹² Ahmanson Translation Imaging Division, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
¹³ Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency, PO Box 100, 1400, Vienna, Austria.

Editorial

D Paez et al. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul;47(7):1615-1619.

doi: 10.1007/s00259-020-04825-8.

¹ Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency, PO Box 100, 1400, Vienna, Austria. d.paez@iaea.org.
² Royal Free Hospital, London, UK.
³ Department of Oncology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
⁴ Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London Hospital, London, UK.
⁵ Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital, Vienna, Austria.
⁶ Nuclear Medicine Department, University of Pretoria and Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁷ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Hwasun, South Korea.
⁸ PET/CT Department at Quanta Diagnostics and Therapy, Curitiba, Brazil.
⁹ Humanitas University and Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy.
¹⁰ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Essen, Germany.
¹¹ Department of Molecular Imaging and Therapy, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia.
¹² Ahmanson Translation Imaging Division, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
¹³ Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency, PO Box 100, 1400, Vienna, Austria.

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