knowledge and perception of nuclear medicine by radiologists in french-speaking sub-saharan africa

Objective(s): to assess the knowledge and perception of nuclear medicine by radiologists in french-speaking sub-saharan africa.methods: cross-sectional study conducted from april 8 to june 7 2020 including radiologists practicing in french-speaking sub-saharan african countries. data were collected electronically via a google form.results: of the 142 radiologists surveyed, 45.8% had already completed an internship in europe, 3.52% in a nuclear medicine department and 72.54% had a nuclear medicine department in their country of practice. among these radiologists, 21.13% knew the three main techniques of nuclear medicine and only 9.15% knew that nuclear medicine allows functional, metabolic and molecular studies. on average, 56.8% were aware of clinical indications for the main fields of nuclear medicine. in 47.18% of cases, they thought that scintigraphic imaging was more irradiating than radiological imaging, 71.1% knew about hybrid imaging techniques, 43.66% had read a scientific article on nuclear medicine, 4.93% had attended a nuclear medicine conference and 28.9% had recommended a scintigraphic imaging examination in their report. half of them would like to see nuclear medicine and radiology merged into a single specialty and 95.77% considered it essential to create a nuclear medicine department in their country.conclusion: the level of knowledge of radiologists in french-speaking sub-saharan africa about nuclear medicine was, on the whole, unsatisfactory with a generally encouraging perception.