Nuclear Medicine

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In year 1803, the young English chemist John Dalton stated atoms as the smallest unit of matter and he was first to propose an atomic model. Even though his atomic model was not accurate, it interested other scientists in his studies. In the end, the combined research and experiments by Democritus, John Dalton, J.J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, and Niels Bohr developed the atomic model we know today, a positively charged nucleus surrounded by orbitals with scattered electrons. This significant discovery led to the development many new areas of knowledge. One of the most important areas was the introduction to nuclear medicine.
Nuclear medicine is a branch of medicine that involves using radioactive isotopes and imaging. (Tangient LLC) This branch of medicine was made possible by the combined research by Antoine Henri Becquerel, Marie and Pierre Curie, and Ernest Rutherford. Becquerel experimented with a crystal containing some uranium by putting it on top of a photographic plate placed in a darkened drawer and trying to test its reactions to the energy of the sunlight. However, this crystal emitted rays of its own even without the initiating energy source and although he himself did not know it, but what he discovered was radioactivity. (Slowiczek) Even though he did not do further research on why his experiment turned out the way it did, Marie Curie and Pierre Curie were there to continue what he started. After hearing about what Becquerel accomplished, they got crystals of their own to test things out for themselves. They experimented with two types of uranium, one containing ore and the other containing pure uranium. From there experiments, they were the first to identify the emissions as “radioactivity.” In addition, they disc...

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Nuclear Medicine

The Field of Radiology: What role do you see for yourself?

Biography of Robert Burns Woodward

Computed Tomography and Radionuclide Imaging

Coping with Chronic Illness

Life of John Dalton