The Supply of Medical Isotopes

Abbreviations and acronyms

ALARA	As low as reasonably achievable
APC	United States Medicare Ambulatory Payment Classification
ATIH	French National Agency for Hospital Information (Agence technique de l'information sur l'hospitalisation)
Bq	Becquerel (unit of measure of radioactivity)
C-14	Carbon-14
CADTH	Canadian Agency for Drug and Technologies in Health
CCAM	French National Catalogue of Medical Services (Classification commune des actes médicaux)
CEPS	French National Economic Committee for Health Products (Comité économique des produits de santé)
Ci	Curie (unit of measure of radioactivity)
CMS	United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Co-60	Cobalt-60
CT	Computed tomography
DKG	German National Association of Hospitals (Deutsche Krankenhausgesellschaft)
DRG	Diagnosis-related Group
EANM	European Association of Nuclear Medicine
EBM	German National Relative Value Scale of Medical Services (Einheitlicher Berwertungsmaßstab)
EC	European Commission
EOP	End of Processing
ERT	Emergency Response Team
F-18	Fluorine-18
FCR	Full-Cost Recovery
FFS	Fee-for-Service
Ga-68	Gallium-68
GHS	French version of diagnosis-related groups (Groupes homogènes de séjours)
GKV-SV	German National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds (Spitzenverband Bund der Krankenkassen)
HEU	High enriched Uranium
HHS	United States Department of Health and Human Services
HLG-MR	OECD Nuclear Energy Agency High-level Group on the Security of Supply of Medical Radioisotopes (HLG-MR)
HRG	Health Care Resource Groups (diagnosis-related groups used in the English NHS)
I-123	Iodine-123
I-131	Iodine-131
InEK	German Institute for Hospital Remuneration (Institut für das Entgeltsystem im Krankenhaus)
IPPS	United States Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System
KBV	German National Association of SHI-Affiliated Physicians (Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung)
LEU	Low enriched uranium
LNT	Linear Non-Threshold
Lu-177	Lutetium-177
Mo-99	Molybdenum-99
MBS	Australian Medicare Benefits Schedule
MFF	Market Forces Factor used in the English NHS to adjust hospital payments
MHLW	Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
MRI	Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MSC	British Columbia Medical Services Commission (Canada)
MSP	British Columbia Medical Services Plan (Canada)
NAS	United States National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
NEA	OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
NHS	English National Health Service
NM	Nuclear Medicine
NMEu-SoS	Nuclear Medicine Europe Security of Supply working group
NRR	Nuclear Research Reactor
NRU	Canadian National Research Universal Reactor (Chalk River, Ontario)
NTP	Nuclear Technology Products division of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation
OPAL	Open-pool Australian Lightwater Reactor
OPPS	United States Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System
ORC	Outage Reserve Capacity
PET	Positron Emission Tomography
PET/CT	Positron Emission Tomography - Computed Tomography (hybrid imaging modality)
PET/MRI	Positron Emission Tomography – Magnetic Resonance Imaging (hybrid imaging modality)
PSMA	Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigens
RBRVS	Resource-based Relative Value Scale
RIZIV-INAMI	Belgian National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (Rijksinstituut voor Ziekte- en Invaliditeitsverzekering – Institut National d’Assurance Maladie-Invalidité)
SHI	Social Health Insurance
SMER	Study on Sustainable and Resilient Supply of Medical Radioisotopes in the European Union
SNMMI	United States Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
SPECT	Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography
SPECT/CT	Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography – Computed Tomography (hybrid imaging modality)
Tc-99m	Technetium-99m
Tl-201	Thallium-201
U-235	Uranium-235
UNCAM	French National Union of Social Health Insurers (Union nationale des organismes d'assurance maladie)
US	Ultrasound