A Personal History of Nuclear Medicine

• Main Author: Wagner, Henry N. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2006.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Nuclear medicine.; Oncology.; Medicine > History.; Nuclear physics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Nuclear Medicine.; Imaging / Radiology.; History of Medicine.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.

In A Personal History of Nuclear Medicine, Dr. Henry N. Wagner, Jr. outlines his significant contribution to the field of nuclear medicine over the past half-century, while also discussing the hurdles that the field faced in becoming a major component of modern medical practice. Further, the author...

Table of Contents:

• Survival of the Luckiest
• So You Want To Be a Doctor
• First Taste of Research
• Medical School and House Staff Days
• The National Institutes of Health
• A New Medical Specialty
• The Early Days
• The Thyroid Paves the Way
• The Breakthrough to Lung Scanning
• Computers in Nuclear Medicine
• From the Lungs to the Heart
• Growth Out of Control
• Molecular Communication
• The Fight Against Infectious Disease
• A New Approach to Disease
• The Genetic Revolution.