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A Personal History of Nuclear MedicineSurvival of the Luckiest

A Personal History of Nuclear Medicine: Survival of the Luckiest [In 1925,the Harvard physician Herman Blumgart injected a solution of a radioactive gas,radon,into the arm vein of a patient “to measure the velocity of the circulation”. He measured the time it took for the tracer to pass through the heart and lungs and reach the opposite arm.His experiment was little noted at the time but is of great historic interest.It was the first time a physiological process had been measured with a radio-active tracer,making the measurements with an externally-placed radiation detector directed at a part of the body of a living human being.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Springer London
Copyright
© Springer-Verlag London Limited 2006
ISBN
978-1-85233-972-2
Pages
16 –31
DOI
10.1007/1-84628-072-9_2
Publisher site
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Abstract

[In 1925,the Harvard physician Herman Blumgart injected a solution of a radioactive gas,radon,into the arm vein of a patient “to measure the velocity of the circulation”. He measured the time it took for the tracer to pass through the heart and lungs and reach the opposite arm.His experiment was little noted at the time but is of great historic interest.It was the first time a physiological process had been measured with a radio-active tracer,making the measurements with an externally-placed radiation detector directed at a part of the body of a living human being.]

Published: Jan 1, 2006

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