Perspectives of Multimodality Imaging in Croatia

Abstract:

The article presents the state of the art of nuclear medicine in Croatia. There are 13 nuclear medicine units in Croatia today. In 2012 10.800 multimodality procedures were done, 3.240 SPECT/CT and 7.560 PET/CT. For interpretation of multimodality imaging adequate education is of great importance. In Croatia radiologists are educated for CT and MR during their specialization. Specialists of nuclear medicine have education for SPECT and PET in curriculum of their specialization training. Technologists who are performing multimodality imaging procedures are educated on Health Polytechnic School. The future of SPECT/CT lies in the utilization of complete CT functionality as part of a routine SPECT/CT workup. As conclusion, more efforts should be done on education of radiologists and nuclear medicine specialists in both diagnostic procedures (PET and CT).