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16 pages in length. Technological improvements within the medical profession would have practitioners from a century ago shaking their collective heads in awe and disbelief. The extent to which nuclear medicine has surpassed the expectations of technological advancement only fifty years ago is both grand and far-reaching; that its usage is incorporated into myriad procedures for disease detection speaks to the growing trend toward this nontraditional approach to health care. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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only fifty years ago is both grand and far-reaching; that its usage is incorporated into myriad procedures for disease detection speaks to the growing trend toward this nontraditional approach to
health care. "Nuclear medicine today is the exciting development of the early 20th century pioneering work of, among others, Rutherford, the Curies, and Lawrence, who built the first cyclotron
in 1983. With all the new isotopes and radiopharmaceuticals we now have available, there is huge scope for advances in the field...Without doubt, the future is CT/PET, as cancer
and oncology enjoy a high priority. Nuclear medicine can and does have a vital role in both diagnosis and therapy" (Frank, 2004, p. 22). II. HISTORY/DEVELOPMENT
Nuclear medicine has its origin from a number of successive discoveries, with the invention of the X-ray the initial catalyst to reaching twenty-first century technology.
X-ray, like so many other human inventions, was an accidental discovery when German physicist Wilhlem Roentgen realized its potential in 1895 as he tested electron beams within a gas
discharge tube. It quickly became apparent to him that the glow of a fluorescent stream was created by an activated electron beam, which in and of itself was not
unusual but it was the fact that this tube was enveloped in thick, black cardboard that caused Roentgen to take notice. In essence, he reasoned that when that the
vast majority of radiation would be blocked out, and proceeded to experiment further with a number of objects until he made the most remarkable discovery (Crawford et al, 2003). The
medical community soon began to realize the potential of X-ray (radiograph) technology; as such, the ability to determine such problems as cavities, broken bones and swallowed objects was to become
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