PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Dennis D. Patton
TI  - The Birth of Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation: Blumgart and Yens, 1925
DP  - 2003 Aug 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine
PG  - 1362--1365
VI  - 44
IP  - 8
4099  - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/44/8/1362.short
4100  - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/44/8/1362.full
SO  - J Nucl Med2003 Aug 01; 44
AB  - In 1925, Hermann Blumgart performed the first diagnostic procedure using radioactive indicators on humans; this first is well recognized. Less well recognized is the fact that Blumgart and his coworker Otto C. Yens, then a medical student, developed the first instrumentation used in a diagnostic procedure involving radioactive indicators. The instrumentation, a modified Wilson cloud chamber, turned out to be the detector most suitable for their purpose. Blumgart also showed remarkable foresight in outlining the requirements both for a satisfactory indicator (tracer) and for a satisfactory detector—requirements that still hold true today. The Blumgart–Yens modified cloud chamber was the birth of nuclear medicine instrumentation.