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Nuclear medicine physicians, also called nuclear radiologists or simply nucleologists, [1] [2] are medical specialists that use tracers, usually radiopharmaceuticals, for diagnosis and therapy. Nuclear medicine procedures are the major clinical applications of molecular imaging and molecular therapy.
Pages in category "American nuclear medicine physicians" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
John Jacob Livingood (March 7, 1903 – July 21, 1986) was an American nuclear physicist specialising in the design of particle accelerators. [1] [2] With Glenn Seaborg he discovered and characterized a number of new radioisotopes useful for nuclear medicine, including cobalt-60, iodine-131 and iron-59. [3] [4] [5]
During his lifetime, Seaborg is said to have been the author or co-author of numerous books and 500 scientific journal articles, many of them brief reports on fast-breaking discoveries in nuclear science while other subjects, most notably the actinide concept, represented major theoretical contributions in the history of science.
The American Board of Nuclear Medicine is the primary certifying organization for nuclear medicine in the United States. The Board serves the public through assurance of high quality patient care by establishing standards of training, initial certification, and continuing competence of physicians providing nuclear medicine diagnostic and therapeutic services.
The experience of the Lawrence Brothers in nuclear medicine became crucial in saving their mother, when she was diagnosed with uterine cancer in 1937. When they were told at Mayo Clinic that she had three months left to live, John Lawrence brought her to be treated by radiologist Dr. Robert S. Stone, one of his collaborators.
American nuclear medicine physicians (14 P) O. American obstetricians (1 C, 175 P) American oncologists (3 C, 276 P) American ophthalmologists (1 C, 205 P)
Elmina M. Roys Gavitt (1828–1898) - American physician; medical journal founder, editor-in-chief; Atul Gawande - surgeon and New Yorker medical writer; William Gilbert - British author; father of W. S. Gilbert; Oliver Goldsmith - British author; Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) - American essayist; Richard Hooker - author of M*A*S*H