Scintillation scanning of lungs in diagnosis of pulmonary embolism.

Career lifetime advances in nuclear medicine

“…My medical house job was in cardiothoracic medicine, and here I came across my first real taste of what was to become nuclear medicine when we were able to send patients over to University College Hospital (UCH) to have their pulmonary perfusion assessed. 1 Remember, there was no computed tomography (CT), no magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), no ultrasound and little angiography. I enjoyed applied physiology, so I managed to persuade the cardiothoracic unit that they needed a senior house officer in what would now be called intensive care, and they persuaded the Garfield Weston Foundation to fund a post.…”