# Clinical Nuclear Medicine

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## TL;DR

A monthly US medical journal for doctors who use radioactive scans and treatments in everyday patient care.

## Summary

Clinical Nuclear Medicine has been published since its first issue in June 1976, making it almost exactly contemporaneous with the first human FDG-PET images acquired that same year. It is a monthly journal from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Wolters Kluwer) aimed squarely at clinical practice: diagnostic interpretation, new tracers and imaging techniques, case-based teaching material, and correlation of nuclear medicine findings with other imaging modalities.

It sits alongside more basic-science-oriented titles such as the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and EJNMMI as one of the main clinical-practice venues in the field, and is frequently cited for case reports and imaging pearls involving PSMA PET, DOTATATE PET and other radiopharmaceutical-based studies that do not fit the format of a full clinical trial report.

According to Wolters Kluwer's own journal page, its 2024 Journal Citation Reports impact factor was 9.6.

## Fields

- Kind: Journal
- Last checked: 2026-09-22
- Also known as: CNM
- Tags: journal; nuclear medicine; clinical
- Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Wolters Kluwer)
- Scope: Clinical nuclear medicine practice: diagnostic imaging interpretation, new radiopharmaceuticals and tracers, case reports and teaching cases.
- Access: subscription

## Sources

- Clinical Nuclear Medicine (LWW journal home): https://journals.lww.com/nuclearmed/pages/default.aspx
- Wolters Kluwer/Ovid: Clinical Nuclear Medicine journal page: https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/solutions/ovid/clinical-nuclear-medicine-235
- PubMed: Historic images in nuclear medicine — the first issue of Clinical Nuclear Medicine (1976): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24978339/

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