SOCIETY OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE, INDIA

Dear Colleagues, We just crossed 100 years of the discovery of tracer principle and nuclear medicine. It was in May 1923, George de Hevesy used thorium B (212Pb) to quantify the biological processes of absorption and translocation in the roots, stem, and leaves of Vicia faba (broad bean plant). Later, in November 1936, Dr. Samuel Hertz, Thyroid Physician from Massachusetts General Hospital & Dr. Arthur Roberts, young physicist from Harvard Medical School, gave us 131Ioidine for diagnosis and therapy (theragnosis) for targeting Thyroid cancers which we are extensively using everywhere across boundaries...read more