Ihad the good fortune to be involved in initial PET imag-ing efforts in the San Diego, CA,
area in 1999, when we brought a mobile van into my most recent site. Today 13 PET …

Until last summer, doctors at Baylor University Med ical Center, a tertiary care teaching
community hos pital in Dallas, Texas, had to plan a patient's road trip to the nearest …

Prospects for nuclear medicine and molecular imaging were bleak in the United States until
fairly recently (1). The number of training programs declined, and the professional outlook …

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) has a great champion in Senator Ted Stevens. He is a
fearless and strong leader in the Senate, and when he goes after a goal he does not stop …

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Task force members have determined several specific goals to facilitate the expansion of
available PET tracers:* The clinical effectiveness of molecular imaging must be …

–Ralph Waldo Emerson of Henry Wagner, who has made many significant contributions to
the field ofnuclear medicine, including the clinical applications of PET. Michael Phelps and …

Nuclear Medicine, talked with David W. Townsend, PhD, and Thomas Beyer, PhD, MBA,
about their pioneering work in the development of PET/CT technology. Townsend, whose …

John Morris, MBBS, who made pioneering and influential contributions in Australia by taking
radionuclide techniques from the research laboratory into clinical practice and by training …