A History of Radionuclide Studies in the UK 50th Anniversary of the
The British Nuclear Medicine Society celebrates its 50th Anniversary with this booklet, which reflects the research of many of the pioneers in the use of radionuclides for the diagnosis and therapy of human disease. Since 1949 there have been remarkable a
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A History of Radionuclide Studies in the UK
Ralph McCready • Gopinath Gnanasegaran Jamshed B. Bomanji Editors
A History of Radionuclide Studies in the UK 50th Anniversary of the British Nuclear Medicine Society
Editors Ralph McCready Department of Nuclear Medicine Royal Sussex County Hospital Brighton UK
Jamshed B. Bomanji Institute of Nuclear Medicine University College Hospital London UK
Gopinath Gnanasegaran Department of Nuclear Medicine Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital London UK
ISBN 978-3-319-28623-5 ISBN 978-3-319-28624-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28624-2
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Foreword
It is 50 years since a group of pioneering nuclear medicine physicians came together in a Pub in London to discuss how to take nuclear medicine forward in the UK – and the British Nuclear Medicine Society (BNMS) was born. Since the first use of radionuclides for patient treatment in 1948 (using P-32 to treat polycythaemia) and then imaging 1948 (hand-traced maps of thyroid glan
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