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ArticleEJNMMI physics2014

The contribution of physics to Nuclear Medicine: physicians' perspective on future directions.

David A Mankoff, Daniel A Pryma

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Article in EJNMMI physics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. The dynamics of physics in PET.EJNMMI physics · 2014
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

David A MankoffDivision of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, 116 Donner Building, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-4283, USA. david.mankoff@uphs.upenn.edu.
Daniel A PrymaDivision of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, 116 Donner Building, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-4283, USA. daniel.pryma@uphs.upenn.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAdvances in Nuclear Medicine physics enabled the specialty of Nuclear Medicine and directed research in other aspects of radiotracer imaging, ultimately leading to Nuclear Medicine's emergence as an important component of current medical practice. DISCUSSION: Nuclear Medicine's unique ability to characterize in vivo biology without perturbing it will assure its ongoing role in a practice of medicine increasingly driven by molecular biology. However, in the future, it is likely that advances in molecular biology and radiopharmaceutical chemistry will increasingly direct future developments in Nuclear Medicine physics, rather than relying on physics as the primary driver of advances in Nuclear Medicine. Working hand-in-hand with clinicians, chemists, and biologists, Nuclear Medicine physicists can greatly enhance the specialty by creating more sensitive and robust imaging devices, by enabling more facile and sophisticated image analysis to yield quantitative measures of regional in vivo biology, and by combining the strengths of radiotracer imaging with other imaging modalities in hybrid devices, with the overall goal to enhance Nuclear Medicine's ability to characterize regional in vivo biology.

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Future directionsMolecular imagingNuclear MedicinePhysics

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PMID26501447
PMCPMC4545216

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