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Abstract
Sustainable nuclear medicine practice tends to focus on "greener" practices. A holistic framework requires a multi-dimensional approach that considers the entire nuclear medicine pipeline beyond "green" initiatives and through a global lens. There is a paucity of nuclear medicine sustainable literature although documented sustainability strategies in radiology provide transferability. For nuclear medicine practice, there are a number of interconnected sustainability domains. While AI may provide solutions for improved sustainability through workflow efficiencies, cost reductions and decreased carbon footprint, there are a number of other easy to implement strategies for waste reduction, energy consumption reduction, and improved efficiencies. Carbon offsets represent a potential strategy to create carbon neutrality of nuclear medicine services and represent a commitment to planetary health and global "net zero by 2030" sustainability targets.
期刊介绍：
BJR is the international research journal of the British Institute of Radiology and is the oldest scientific journal in the field of radiology and related sciences.
Dating back to 1896, BJR’s history is radiology’s history, and the journal has featured some landmark papers such as the first description of Computed Tomography "Computerized transverse axial tomography" by Godfrey Hounsfield in 1973. A valuable historical resource, the complete BJR archive has been digitized from 1896.
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- 2015 Impact Factor – 1.840
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- ISSN: 0007-1285
- eISSN: 1748-880X
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