Molecular imaging technologists face statistics every day because they perform diagnostic
imaging on patients who have been selected on the basis of how well the imaging test …

This article explores basic statistical concepts of clinical trial design and diagnostic testing,
or how one starts with a question, formulates it into a hypothesis on which a clinical trial is …

A key element of any department's quality management system (QMS) is confirmation that
equipment meets its expected level of performance. Specifically, at installation the …

A nxiety and uncertainty pervade medicine and nuclear medicine today. Many nuclear
medicine physicians and technologists have had theirjobs disappear or be taken overby …

In the January issue of Investigative Radiology, we begin a series of invited articles about
statistics in radiology. The articles are not intended as substitutes for textbook chapters or …

In interpreting the significance of a laboratory mea surement, it is often helpful to know how
the value ob tained in a given case relates to a set of values from a healthy reference …

Over the past year, I have been fortunate enough to be involved in many activities within
SNMMI-TS. Under the leadership of Scott Holbrook, BS, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS, the section has …

In the January issue of Investigative Radiology, we begin a series ofinvited articles about
statistics in radiology. The articles are not intended as substitutes for textbook chapters or …

[en] The authors describe the usefulness of the techniques that are applied to study the role
of tests and point out their limitations. In many instances, complex tasks must be …

1370 Objectives Statistical significance does not equal clinical significance. This study
looked at how frequently statistically significant results in the nuclear medicine literature are …