McCready R., Gnanasegaran G., Bomanji J.B. (eds.) A History of Radionuclide Studies in the UK: 50th Anniversary of the British Nuclear Medicine Society

Springer, 2016. — 166 p. — ISBN 9783319286235.История радионуклидных исследований в Великобритании
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 fi rst use of radionuclides for patient treatment in 1948 (using P-32 to treat polycythaemia) and then imaging 1948 (hand-traced maps of thyroid gland), nuclear medicine showed a great potential to unravel the physiological processes in health and disease. During the relatively short 50-year period since the BNMS was founded, there has been immense changes and advances in the speciality: from a scientifi c curiosity to becoming an indispensable diagnostic and therapeutic tool. The BNMS has been the hub for this highly motivated multidisciplinary group of people which from the start included physicians, scientists, physicists, radio pharmacists, practitioners and nurses. This book is a timely collection of articles outlining the scientifi c advances in nuclear medicine recorded by the pioneers themselves. This book is a journey through these exciting times, and it is also a collection of personal narratives, telling us the story of these exciting years by those who have themselves been instrumental in advancing and shaping nuclear medicine. I have great pleasure and honour in presenting this book, an informative and an enjoyable read of this journey through five decades of nuclear medicine in the UK, to mark the 50 th anniversary of the BNMS.History of the BNMS 1966–2016
A History of Nuclear Medicine in the UK
The Evolution of Training in Nuclear Medicine in the UK
A Technologists Viewpoint
Evolution of Nuclear Medicine Physics in the UK
The Institute of Nuclear Medicine London
A History of Nuclear Medicine in the UK Radionuclide Investigation of the Brain
A History of Nuclear Cardiology in the UK
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Paediatric Nuclear Medicine in the UK.
Renal Radionuclide Studies
St Bartholomew’s Hospital and Medical School: Department of Nuclear Medicine
Nuclear Medicine at the Hammersmith Hospital
Nuclear Medicine in Nottingham: Antibodies, Gamma Probes and Drug Delivery
The Introduction and Development of Clinical PET in the United Kingdom
Bone Radionuclide Imaging, Quantitation and Bone Densitometry
Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine in the UK
Hospital Radiopharmacy in the UK
Development of Computers in Nuclear Medicine
The Future Direction of Radiopharmaceutical Development
A Personal Reflection