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A Personal History of Nuclear MedicineThe Thyroid Paves the Way

A Personal History of Nuclear Medicine: The Thyroid Paves the Way [The care of patients with thyroid disease illustrates the general principles upon which the field of nuclear medicine is based.Its procedures are used to examine the chemistry of the thyroid by means of radiation detectors outside the body.The information is dynamic,rather than static.Space and time are joined in documenting quantitatively the chemistry of the living human body.The tools of nuclear medicine examine and characterize quantitatively the dynamic state of the processes that are the basis of life.Disease can be detected before the “constancy” of the constituents of the body has become abnormal and is reflected in blood tests.These tests reveal the “steady state” of the abnormal processes that have become abnormal after compensatory biochemical processes become unable to solve the patient’s problems.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Personal History of Nuclear MedicineThe Thyroid Paves the Way

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Publisher
Springer London
Copyright
© Springer-Verlag London Limited 2006
ISBN
978-1-85233-972-2
Pages
160 –166
DOI
10.1007/1-84628-072-9_9
Publisher site
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Abstract

[The care of patients with thyroid disease illustrates the general principles upon which the field of nuclear medicine is based.Its procedures are used to examine the chemistry of the thyroid by means of radiation detectors outside the body.The information is dynamic,rather than static.Space and time are joined in documenting quantitatively the chemistry of the living human body.The tools of nuclear medicine examine and characterize quantitatively the dynamic state of the processes that are the basis of life.Disease can be detected before the “constancy” of the constituents of the body has become abnormal and is reflected in blood tests.These tests reveal the “steady state” of the abnormal processes that have become abnormal after compensatory biochemical processes become unable to solve the patient’s problems.]

Published: Jan 1, 2006

Keywords: Thyroid Cancer; Radioactive Iodine; Multinodular Goiter; Endemic Goiter; Hammersmith Hospital

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