Report from SNM: Images of the Year cover molecular imaging from head to toe

June 17, 2008 Report from SNM: Images of the Year cover molecular imaging from head to toe James Brice -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Henry J. Wagner Jr. has selected two images, a PET/CT scan showing the early metastatic spread of tumor in a patient's ear and a SPECT/MRI study of osteomyelitis in another patient's foot, to exemplify the diagnostic capabilities of nuclear medicine as the 2008 Society of Nuclear Medicine Image of the Year. Wagner, a professor of nuclear medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, based his selection on how the two images capitalized on what he calls the four technical pillars of nuclear medicine: PET, SPECT, CT, and MRI.

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