A Scanning Apparatus for the Localization of Gamma Emitting Isotopes in VIVO

A Glance At The History Of Nuclear Medicine

“…In Sweden, diagnostic nuclear medicine began with the thyroid in all the university hospitals around 1950 with Bengt Skanse as the pioneer. Important contributions to the development of methods and instruments for diagnosis of thyroid diseases have come from Sweden (17,(47)(48)(49)(50).…”

“…I n Sweden. at NUKAB in Goteborg, Erik Berne and Ulf Johnsson built a rectilinear scanner which was sold worldwide and Lars Jonsson and Inger Ragnhult in Stockholm constructed the first whole body scanner ( 17). The rectilinear scanner quickly becamc the standard instrument uscd in nuclear medicine imaging and remained so for two decades.…”

Radioactive iodine in thyroid medicine-How it started in Sweden and some of today's challenges

“…This method was used up to the time when the more sensitive NaI(Tl) scintillation detectors became available and thyroid uptake measurements using a detector over the neck came into practice again. There was an impressive technical development in Sweden, including the construction of scintigraphs, at Radiumhemmet in Stockholm [22] as well as at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gö teborg (Erik Berne and Ulf Jonsson at the company NUKAB). Before that, Johansson and Skanse [23] already in 1952 constructed a small gammacamera with a parallel hole collimator, NaI(Tl) as intensifying screen and photographic film as an imaging detector.…”