Fifty Years of Radiopharmaceuticals

Pedro Brugarolas; Jessica Comstock; David W Dick; Teresa Ellmer; Jonathan W Engle; Suzanne E Lapi; Steven H Liang; Ephraim E Parent; Naga Vara Kishore Pillarsetty; Svetlana Selivanova; Xiankai Sun; Amy Vavere; Peter J H Scott; Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Council

Fifty Years of Radiopharmaceuticals

J Nucl Med Technol. 2020 Jun;48(Suppl 1):34S-39S.

Affiliations

¹ Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Pharmalogic Holdings Corp., Boca Raton, Florida.
³ University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
⁴ Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Reston, Virginia.
⁵ University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
⁶ University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
⁷ Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁸ Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida.
⁹ Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York;CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec, and Faculty of Pharmacy, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
¹⁰ Department of Radiology and Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
¹¹ Molecular Imaging Core, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee; and.

PMID: 32605944

Abstract

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the SNMMI Technologist Section in 1970, the Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Council board of directors is pleased to contribute to this celebratory supplement of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology with a perspective highlighting major developments in the radiopharmaceutical sciences that have occurred in the last 50 years.

Keywords: history; nuclear medicine practice; radiopharmaceuticals.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Anniversaries and Special Events*
Humans
Nuclear Medicine / methods*
Periodicals as Topic*
Radiopharmaceuticals*
Societies, Medical

Substances

Radiopharmaceuticals