Abstract
This paper is the second in a series of invited perspectives by four pioneers of nuclear medicine imaging and physics. A medical physicist and a nuclear medicine clinical specialist each take a backward look and a forward look at the contributions of physics to nuclear medicine. Here is a backward look from a nuclear medicine physician's perspective.
Highlights
This paper is the second in a series of invited perspectives by four pioneers of nuclear medicine imaging and physics
This seminal encounter possibly marks the development of what was to become known as Nuclear Medicine (Table 2, Figure 1)
It is the perfect example of the interdisciplinary thinking which was to permeate and characterise the development of this
Summary
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