The British Nuclear Medicine Society celebrates its 50th Anniversary with this booklet, which reflects the research of many of the pioneers in the use of radionuclides for the diagnosis and therapy of human disease. Since 1949 there have been remarkable advances in radionuclide techniques and imaging equipment: from the first devices “home-made” in the many physics departments throughout the UK, to the sophisticated multimodality imagers now in everyday use in Nuclear Medicine. The BNMS has been instrumental in promoting the use of radionuclide techniques in the investigation of pathology by supporting and providing education, research and guidelines on the optimum use of radiation to help patients. The future of Nuclear Medicine is bright, thanks to improved imaging resolution, new radiopharmaceuticals, and new diagnostic and therapeutic techniques and procedures.

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. History of the BNMS 1966–2016
• 2. A History of Nuclear Medicine in the UK
• 3. The Evolution of Training in Nuclear Medicine in the UK
• 4. A Technologists Viewpoint
• 5. Evolution of Nuclear Medicine Physics in the UK
• 6. The Institute of Nuclear Medicine London
• 7. A History of Nuclear Medicine in the UK Radionuclide Investigation of the Brain
• 8. A History of Nuclear Cardiology in the UK
• 9. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Paediatric Nuclear Medicine in the UK
• 10. Renal Radionuclide Studies
• 11. St Bartholomew’s Hospital and Medical School: Department of Nuclear Medicine
• 12. Nuclear Medicine at the Hammersmith Hospital
• 13. Nuclear Medicine in Nottingham: Antibodies, Gamma Probes and Drug Delivery
• 14. The Introduction and Development of Clinical PET in the United Kingdom
• 15. Bone Radionuclide Imaging, Quantitation and Bone Densitometry
• 16. Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine in the UK
• 17. Hospital Radiopharmacy in the UK
• 18. Development of Computers in Nuclear Medicine
• 19. The Future Direction of Radiopharmaceutical Development
• 20. A Personal Reflection