Clinical audit in nuclear medicine.

The author reflects on the study of nuclear medicine and its new procedures and materials. He relates that nuclear medicine is defined in the U.S. Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) program as a medical specialty which uses the tracer principle. The author mentions that the major procedure and materials incorporated in nuclear medicine include aerosol ventilation studies, myocardial perfusion imaging, and somatostatin analogues.