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Article: The Annual Newsline Review: The State of Nuclear Medicine
- Article from:
- The Journal of Nuclear Medicine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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CopyrightCopyright Society of Nuclear Medicine Feb 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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2004
From the Newsline Editor
What exciting times for us professionally: new therapies, hybrid imaging equipment, and greater integration of nuclear medicine services with clinical medicine than ever before. Teamwork is now a vital hallmark of our expanding nuclear medicine community. Physicists are helping us learn dosimetry techniques for more complex therapies. Technologists operate the sophisticated equipment and, to a large extent, educate patients and guide them through sometimes demanding procedures. Pharmacists and their assistants maintain the quality and availability of our lifeblood, radiopharmaceuticals. Yet the team is facing its greatest challenge: to do more work of higher ...