A Personal History of Nuclear Medicine

Download or read book A Personal History of Nuclear Medicine written by Henry N. Wagner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Personal History of Nuclear Medicine is an account of how nuclear medicine developed, and its basic philosophy in the past, present and future. The book outlines the history of the development of nuclear medicine as experienced by the author and describes the hurdles that nuclear medicine has had to face, in view of the perception of risk of radiation. It also explains how nuclear medicine solves medical problems in clinical practice and how it has contributed to a new definition of disease. The book concludes with future projections of the likely developments in this area in the next 50 years. Target market: nuclear medicine professionals as well non-nuclear medicine physicians and the public