“…Hospital Centre, Stoke-on-Trent W. VAN Since then a number of workers have shown that excellent thyroid scans can be obtained with 9mTc (Andros et al, 1965;Degrossi et al, 1965;Kuba et al, 1966;Atkins and Richards, 1968;Haas et al, 1968;Umek and Czembirek, 1968;Crema et al, 1969). Technetium is trapped by the thyroid, as is iodide, but soon after administration no significant organic binding takes place (Andros et al, 1965;Shimmins et al, 1968;Shimmins et al, 1969).…”