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European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 12/2019

01-11-2019 | Editorial

The 70th anniversary of automated radionuclide imaging

Author: V. Ralph McCready

Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Issue 12/2019

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Excerpt

This year Satoshi Minoshima, President of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, wrote that ‘Nuclear medicine has been a trailblazer in imaging and sciences for more than a century’ [1]. In the 1950s, before the Internet, faxes and texting, trailblazing in nuclear medicine was taking place on both sides of the Atlantic, but without the benefits of instant communication by Internet, fax or text. …
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Metadata
Title
The 70th anniversary of automated radionuclide imaging
Author
V. Ralph McCready
Publication date
01-11-2019
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging / Issue 12/2019
Print ISSN: 1619-7070
Electronic ISSN: 1619-7089
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-019-04413-5

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