PROCEDURE STANDARDSNMMI Procedure Standard/EANM Practice Guideline forSSTR PET:Imaging Neuroendocrine TumorsThomas A.Hope'2,Martin Allen-Auerbach3,Lisa Bodei,Jeremie Calais3,Magnus Dahlbom3,Lisa K.Dunnwald3.Michael M.Graham3,Heather A.Jacene5,Courtney Lawhn Heath2,Erik S.Mittra',Chadwick L.Wright,Wolfgang P.Fendler,Ken Hermmann,David Taieb0,and Andreas Kjaer'Department of Radiology.San Francisco VA Medical Center,San Francisco,California;2Department of Radiology and BiomedicalImaging.University of California San Francisco.San Francisco,California;Ahmanson Translational Theranostics Division,Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology.UCLA,Los Angeles,California;'Molecular Imaging and Therapy Service,Department of Radiology,Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,Weill Medical College of Cornell University,New YorkNew York:Department of Radiology.Roy J.and Lucille A.Carver College of Medicine,University of lowa.lowa City.lowa:Department of Imaging.Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.Department of Radiology.Brigham and Women's Hospital.Boston.Massachusetts:Department of Diagnostic Radiology.Oregon Health Science University.Portland.Oregon;SWright Center ofInnovation and Biomedical Imaging.Department of Radiology.The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center,Columbus,Ohio;Department of Nuclear Medicine,University of Duisburg-Esen and German Cancer Consortium(DKTK)-University Hospital Essen.Essen,Germany:Department of Nuclear Medicine,La Timone University Hospital,CERIMED,Aix-Marseille University,MarseilleFrance:and Department of Clinical Physiology.Nuclear Medicine PET and Cluster for Molecular Imaging.Department ofBiomedical Sciences,Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen,Copenhagen,DenmarkPREAMBLEnuclear medicine imaging requires specific training,skills,and tech-niques,as described in each document.Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular ImaginThe EANM and SNMMI have written and approved thesestandards/guidelines to promote the use of nuclear medicine proce-(SNMMI)is an international scientific and professional organiza-dures with high quality.These standards/guidelines are intended totion founded in 1954 to promote the science,technology,and prac-assist practitioners in providing appropriate nuclear medicine caretical application of nuclear medicine.Its 18,000 members arefor patients.They are not inflexible rules or requirements of prac-physicians,technologists,and scientists specializing in thetice and are not intended,nor should they be used,to establish aresearch and practice of nuclear medicine.In addition to publish-legal standard of care.For these reasons and those set forth below.ing joumals,newsletters,and books,the SNMMI also sponsorsthe SNMMI/EANM cautions against the use of these standards/international meetings and workshops designed to increase theguidelines in litigation in which the clinical decisions of a practi-competencies of nuclear medicine practitioners and to promotetioner are called into question.new advances in the
