The Birth of Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation: Blumgart and Yens, 1925

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Dennis D. Patton¹ 

[1] Division of Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona Division of Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona Division of Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona

关键词: Blumgart–Yens;    circulation time;    cloud chamber;    detector;    history;    instrumentation;   

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学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Society of Nuclear Medicine

【 摘 要 】

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 detectorrequirements that still hold true today. The Blumgart–Yens modified cloud chamber was the birth of nuclear medicine instrumentation.

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