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Review

A Technologists Viewpoint

Liz Clarke  1
Ralph McCready  1 , Gopinath Gnanasegaran  2 , Jamshed B. Bomanji  3
, editors.
In: A History of Radionuclide Studies in the UK: 50th Anniversary of the British Nuclear Medicine Society [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2016. Chapter 4.
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A Technologists Viewpoint

Liz Clarke.
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When radio-isotope departments were developed in the early 1950’s most studies on patients involved laboratory based techniques using blood samples etc. Usually run by physicists who often made their own equipment with the investigations carried out by physics technicians. However, with the advent gamma camera imaging, the specialty evolved and the training of nuclear medicine technologists has changed over the years reflecting increased complexity of equipment and procedures. This chapter explores the historical changes and milestones in the British nuclear medicine technology and technologists from technologist viewpoint.

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