Nuclear medicine in Germany: a look back at the beginning
Winkler, C.
Nuklearmedizin. Nuclear Medicine 28(1): 1-10
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0029-5566 PMID: 2652093 Document Number: 342026
The development of nuclear medicine in Germany from early approaches with 32P and 131I to the first radioiodine therapy of thyroid cancer up to the clarification of basic principles for current thyroid diagnostics and for functional scintigraphic imaging are presented. Selected references are used in portraying scientific stepping stones of our speciality as well as its establishment in clinical practice during the first two decades. Researchers, places, and facts are specified and interpreted in their relation to the state-of-the-art of nuclear medicine.