Appendix E
Acronyms
2D |
Two-dimensional |
3D |
Three-dimensional |
ABIM |
American Board of Internal Medicine |
ABMS |
American Board of Medical Specialties |
ABNM |
American Board of Nuclear Medicine |
ABR |
American Board of Radiology |
ACGME |
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education |
ACSI |
Advanced Cyclotron Systems, Inc |
AECL |
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited |
AIPES |
Association of Imaging Producers and Equipment Suppliers |
AMA |
American Medical Association |
AMIPA |
American Medical Isotopes Production Act |
ANDA |
Abbreviated new drug application |
ANL |
Argonne National Laboratory |
ANSTO |
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation |
ASNM |
American Society of Nuclear Medicine |
ATA |
American Thyroid Association |
AUC |
Appropriate Use Criteria |
B&W |
Babcock & Wilcox (now BWX Technologies) |
BATAN |
Badan Tenaga Nuklir Nasional |
Bq |
Becquerel |
BR-2 |
Belgian Reactor II |
CAD |
Coronary artery disease |
CANDU |
CANada Deuterium Uranium |
CBNC |
Certifying Board of Nuclear Cardiology |
CCaS |
Coronary artery calcium scoring |
CCTA |
Cardiac computed tomography angiography |
CEA |
Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives |
CEA Scan™ |
Carcinoembryonic antigen scan (Tradename for arcitumomab) |
CERCA |
Compagnie pour l’Etude et la Réalisation de CombustiblesAtomiques |
Ci |
Curie |
CIAE |
China Institute of Atomic Energy |
CIIC |
Canadian Isotope Innovations Corporation |
CMS |
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services |
CNEA |
Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica |
CNL |
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories |
CNSC |
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission |
CORAR |
Council of Radionculides and Radiopharmaceuticals |
CPT |
Current Procedural Terminology |
CRCHUS |
Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke |
CRP |
Coordinated Research Project |
CT |
Computed tomography |
DOE |
U.S. Department of Energy |
DTPA |
Diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid |
EOP |
End of processing |
FDA |
U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
FRM-II |
Forschungsreaktors München II reactor |
FY |
Fiscal year |
GA |
General Atomics |
GAO |
U.S. Government Accountability Office |
GE |
General Electric |
GEHC |
General Electric Health Care |
GTRI |
Global Threat Reduction Initiative |
HANARO |
High-flux Advanced Neutron Application ReactOr |
HCPCS |
Healthcare Common Procedural Code System |
HEU |
Highly enriched uranium |
HFIR |
High Flux Isotope Reactor |
HFR |
High Flux Reactor |
HHS |
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
HIFAR |
High Flux Australian Reactor |
HLG-MR |
High-level Group on the Security of Supply of Medical Radioisotopes |
HLW |
High-level waste |
IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
INVAP |
Investigación Aplicada |
IOM |
Institute of Medicine |
IRE |
Institut National des Radioéléments |
JHR |
Jules Horowitz Reactor |
KAERI |
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute |
KJRR |
Kijang Research Reactor |
LEU |
Low enriched uranium |
LLW |
Low-level waste |
LMI |
Lantheus Medical Imaging |
MAA |
Macroaggregated albumin |
MAG3 (or MAG-3) |
Mercaptoacetyltriglycine |
MAPLE |
Multipurpose Applied Physics Lattice Experiment reactor |
MIPS |
Medical Isotopes Production System |
MIR |
Modernized international reactor |
MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
MOX |
Mixed oxide |
MPI |
Myocardial perfusion imaging |
MRI |
Magnetic resonance imaging |
MTR |
Materials test reactor |
MURR |
Missouri University Research Reactor Center |
MYRRHA |
Multi-purpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications |
NASEM |
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
NCRP |
National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements |
NDA |
New Drug Application |
NEA |
Nuclear Energy Agency |
NECSA |
Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa |
NEI |
Nuclear Energy Institute |
NNSA |
National Nuclear Security Administration |
NRC |
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
NRCan |
Natural Resources Canada |
NRG |
Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group |
NRU |
National Research Universal Reactor |
NTP |
Nuclear Technology Products SOC Ltd. |
OECD |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
OPAL |
Open-Pool Australian Lightwater Reactor |
ORC |
Outage reserve capacity |
ORNL |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
OSTP |
(The White House) Office of Science and Technology Policy |
PET |
Positron emission tomography |
PIPE |
Prairie Isotope Production Enterprise |
PNNL |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
RAS |
Russian Academy of Sciences |
RIAR |
Scientific Research Institute of Atomic Reactors |
RMB |
Brazilian Multipurpose Research Reactor |
SAFARI-1 |
South Africa Fundamental Atomic Research Installation 1 reactor |
sANDA |
Supplemental ANDA |
SCK•CEN |
Dutch: Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie; French: Centre d’Étude de l’énergie Nucléaire; English: Belgian Nuclear Research Center |
SGE |
Selective gas extraction |
SHINE |
Subcritical Hybrid Intense Neutron Emitter |
sNDA |
Supplemental NDA |
SNMMI |
Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging |
SPECT |
Single-photon emission computed tomography |
SRA |
Southern Radioisotopes Alliance Inc. |
TIG |
Tungsten inert gas |
TRIGA |
Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics |
TRIUMF |
A consortium of Canadian universities, formerly Tri-University Meson Facility |
TRM |
Target Residual Material |
UPPI |
United Pharmacy Partners LLC |
WBC |
White blood cell |
WNN |
World Nuclear News |