What training requirements should be met by staff involved in PET/CT?
The basic training requirements and guidelines set by each country for each category of staff (nuclear medicine physicians, radiologists, medical physicists and technologists or radiographers as appropriate) should be followed for the PET/CT. Its inter-disciplinary nature will, in many instances, be best met through a collaboration and consensus among professional bodies on training requirements, and judicious use of continuing education programmes. If PET/CT is located in a nuclear medicine facility the physicians may need to gain the knowledge and skills required to interpret CT, and the nuclear medicine technologists may need to be able to perform CT examinations. On the other hand, if it is in a radiology department, the radiologists and radiological technologists may need to acquire knowledge and skills in nuclear medicine. In either case, the physicians, radiologists and technologists involved must be well educated and trained in PET/CT imaging procedures and radiation protection
