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Review

Renal Radionuclide Studies

Keith Britton  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 10.
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Renal Radionuclide Studies

Keith Britton.
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Adventure with the kidneys started at the Middlesex Hospital culminating in 1971 with Britton and Brown’s monograph Clinical Renography. and the team later cleaned up the renogram with Computer assisted blood background subtracted, CABBS, Renography etc. Clinicians and scientists from the UK have played a major and significant role in developments of radionuclide renal studies have an established place in Nephrology and Urology. This chapter explores the early days of radionuclide renal studies with special emphasis mainly to the work at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

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