Clincal Guidelines

Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC)

Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) are statements that contain indications describing when, and how often, an intervention should be performed under the auspices of scientific evidence, clinical judgment, and patient values while avoiding unnecessary provisions of services. SNMMI follows a balanced multidisciplinary approach to guidance development by including various stakeholders in the development process.

Procedure Standards

The procedure standards help to identify those elements of the procedure that are most important in obtaining a high-quality examination, while simultaneously controlling costs. Use of standardized procedures will increase the applicability of clinical research among multiple institutions, in turn, increasing the value of research studies, particularly in the field of technology assessment. In the interest of creating strong, comprehensive documents, some guidelines were formally adopted by SNMMI in collaboration with other professional organizations.


The Medical Internal Radiation Dose Committee pursues its mission to develop standard methods, models, and mathematical schema for assessing internal radiation dose from administered radiopharmaceuticals. The Radiation Dose Assessment Resource website's goals are to bring together the various resources that exist in the areas of internal and external dose assessment, integrate them into a single system, and put them in your hands as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Dose Optimization

In nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, small amounts of radioactive agents are administered to the patient to allow the physician to examine molecular processes within the body. These procedures are highly effective, safe and painless diagnostic tools that present physicians with a detailed view of what’s going on inside an individual’s body at the cellular level. For more than 60 years, these studies have been used to evaluate practically all systems within the body, including the heart and brain, as well as to image many types of cancer.

Consensus Guidelines and Position Statements

Consensus Guidelines are statements on issues within the field of Nuclear Medicine that are supported by other medical specialty societies and experts, and Position Statements are statements that serve as an expression of SNMMI's stance on specific practice, policy, or professional issues.