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Endorsement of International Consensus Radiochemistry Nomenclature Guidelines

EJNMMI Research volume 9, Article number: 34 (2019) Cite this article

With the open letter published in EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry by an international working group of experts, the EJNMMI journal family endorses the application of the guidelines in contributions to the journals.

Attached to the letter by the working group is a three-page summary highlighting the most relevant issues used in the notation of radiopharmaceuticals and related terms.

The full paper with all recommendations is published in “Consensus nomenclature rules for radiopharmaceutical chemistry—setting the record straight, Coenen, H.H., Gee A.D. et al., Nuclear Medicine and Biology, volume 55, v–xi (2017) (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2017.09.004)”.

All Editors-in-Chiefs of the EJNMMI journals strongly recommend all manuscripts meet these guidelines upon submission. In addition, all reviewers will be asked to be aware of the guidelines and wherever possible to check if the guidelines are followed.

Editors-in-Chief,

Philip Elsinga

Angelika Bischof Delaloye

Arturo Chiti

Stefaan Vandenberghe

Francesco Giammarile

Ignasi Carrio

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, Groningen, 9713 EZ, The Netherlands

    Philip Elsinga

  2. Nuclear Medicine Service, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Bugnon 46, 1011, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Angelika Bischof Delaloye

  3. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy

    Arturo Chiti

  4. Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center – IRCCS, Milan, Italy

    Arturo Chiti

  5. MEDISIP-ELIS-IBITECH, Ghent University, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 9000, Gent, Belgium

    Stefaan Vandenberghe

  6. Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging Section, Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria

    Francesco Giammarile

  7. Department of Radiology and Medical Physics, Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain

    Ignasi Carrio

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This article is co-published in the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, EJNMMI Research, EJNMMI Physics, EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry, and European Journal of Hybrid Imaging, and is available at https://doi.org/10.1186/s41181-018-0050-3, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-018-4243-5, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13550-018-0469-2, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40658-018-0237-4 and https://doi.org/10.1186/s41824-018-0048-9 respectively.

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Elsinga, P., Delaloye, A.B., Chiti, A. et al. Endorsement of International Consensus Radiochemistry Nomenclature Guidelines. EJNMMI Res 9, 34 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13550-018-0469-2

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