Abbreviations and acronyms
As low as reasonably achievable
United States Medicare Ambulatory Payment Classification
French National Agency for Hospital Information (Agence technique de l'information sur l'hospitalisation)
Becquerel (unit of measure of radioactivity)
Carbon-14
Canadian Agency for Drug and Technologies in Health
French National Catalogue of Medical Services (Classification commune des actes médicaux)
French National Economic Committee for Health Products (Comité économique des produits de santé)
Curie (unit of measure of radioactivity)
United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Cobalt-60
Computed tomography
German National Association of Hospitals (Deutsche Krankenhausgesellschaft)
Diagnosis-related Group
European Association of Nuclear Medicine
German National Relative Value Scale of Medical Services (Einheitlicher Berwertungsmaßstab)
European Commission
End of Processing
Emergency Response Team
Fluorine-18
Full-Cost Recovery
Fee-for-Service
Gallium-68
French version of diagnosis-related groups (Groupes homogènes de séjours)
German National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds (Spitzenverband Bund der Krankenkassen)
High enriched Uranium
United States Department of Health and Human Services
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency High-level Group on the Security of Supply of Medical Radioisotopes (HLG-MR)
Health Care Resource Groups (diagnosis-related groups used in the English NHS)
Iodine-123
Iodine-131
German Institute for Hospital Remuneration (Institut für das Entgeltsystem im Krankenhaus)
United States Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System
German National Association of SHI-Affiliated Physicians (Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung)
Low enriched uranium
Linear Non-Threshold
Lutetium-177
Molybdenum-99
Australian Medicare Benefits Schedule
Market Forces Factor used in the English NHS to adjust hospital payments
Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
British Columbia Medical Services Commission (Canada)
British Columbia Medical Services Plan (Canada)
United States National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
English National Health Service
Nuclear Medicine
Nuclear Medicine Europe Security of Supply working group
Nuclear Research Reactor
Canadian National Research Universal Reactor (Chalk River, Ontario)
Nuclear Technology Products division of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation
Open-pool Australian Lightwater Reactor
United States Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System
Outage Reserve Capacity
Positron Emission Tomography
Positron Emission Tomography - Computed Tomography (hybrid imaging modality)
Positron Emission Tomography – Magnetic Resonance Imaging (hybrid imaging modality)
Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigens
Resource-based Relative Value Scale
Belgian National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (Rijksinstituut voor Ziekte- en Invaliditeitsverzekering – Institut National d’Assurance Maladie-Invalidité)
Social Health Insurance
Study on Sustainable and Resilient Supply of Medical Radioisotopes in the European Union
United States Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography
Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography – Computed Tomography (hybrid imaging modality)
Technetium-99m
Thallium-201
Uranium-235
French National Union of Social Health Insurers (Union nationale des organismes d'assurance maladie)
Ultrasound