The only other obstacle to the wider use of PET-CT is the difficulty and cost of producing and transporting the radiopharmaceuticals used for PET imaging, which are usually extremely short-lived (for instance, the half life of radioactive Fluorine-18 (18F) used to trace glucose metabolism (using fluorodeoxyglucose, FDG) is two hours only.
Nuclear Radiologist: Average Salary: $180,000. Nuclear radiology is a radiology field that uses radioactive material in imaging, diagnosis and treatment. PET scans, CT scans and gamma imaging are the most commonly used equipment in this field.
A Nuclear Medicine Technologist median salary is $33.74 per hour. The lowest 10% earn $24.31 per hour and those in the upper 10% earn more than $44.87 per hour. Annually. On an annual basis the median Nuclear Medicine Technologist salary is $70,180. The lowest 10% earn a salary of $50,560 per year while the upper 10% earn more than $93,320 per year. These salaries are calculated as a mean or average. The lowest paid Nuclear Medicine Technologist earn below $24.00 per hour.