Objective To evaluate the situation of nuclear medicine in Beijing 2008.

Methods Staff, equipment, clinical applications and research of nuclear medicine in Beijing were evaluated by post questionnaires.The military hospitals were excluded from the survey.

Results Thirty-five nuclear medicine departments and PET, PET-CT centers from 33 hospitals responded to our survey.In these departments and centers, there were 334 staff, doctors 42.8%, technicians 39.8%, nurses 9.3%, physical therapist and engineers 2.4%, chemists 2.1%, others 3.6%.Forty-nine imaging equipment included 2 gamma cameras, 42 SPECT, 2 PET, 3 PET-CT, were equipped in these hospitals before the end of 2008.During 2008, clinical studies consisted of 100 685 radionuclide imaging(96 857 for SPECT, 3758 for PET-CT), 7832 function measures (6980 for thyroid function, 852 for renal function), 6768 bone density measures, 632 491 for in vitro studies, and 3169 radionuclide therapies(the most for Graves'disease, followed bythyroid cancer and bone metastasis). One hundred and one papers were published as first author in 2008.State of the art imaging equipments conducted the daily quality control(QC), weekly QC, monthly QC and quarterly QC were 43.3%, 30.4%, 47.8%and 67.4%respectively.

Conclusion Compared with 2005, high educated staff increased, the proportion of technicists and nurses enlarged, the cases of radionuclide imaging and treatment increased, QC procedures of the equipments were enhanced but not enough.