RADIOCHEMISTRY
1 HISTORY OF THE BNMS 1966–2016 2 A HISTORY OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE IN THE UK 3 THE EVOLUTION OF TRAINING IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE IN THE UK 4 A TECHNOLOGISTS VIEWPOINT 5 EVOLUTION OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE PHYSICS IN THE UK 6 THE INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE LONDON 7 A HISTORY OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE IN THE UK RADIONUCLIDE INVESTIGATION OF THE BRAIN 8 A HISTORY OF NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY IN THE UK 9 GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, PAEDIATRIC NUCLEAR MEDICINE IN THE UK 10 RENAL RADIONUCLIDE STUDIES CONTENTS 11 ST BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL SCHOOL: DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE 12 NUCLEAR MEDICINE AT THE HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL 13 NUCLEAR MEDICINE IN NOTTINGHAM: ANTIBODIES, GAMMA PROBES AND DRUG DELIVERY 14 THE INTRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CLINICAL PET IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 15 BONE RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING, QUANTITATION AND BONE DENSITOMETRY 16 THERAPEUTIC NUCLEAR MEDICINE IN THE UK 17 HOSPITAL RADIOPHARMACY IN THE UK 18 DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE 19 THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT 20 A PERSONAL REFLECTION THE ORIGINAL FOUR AGAINST THIS CHANGING LANDSCAPE, FOUR CLINICIANS WITH AN INTEREST IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE, STEVE GARNETT, DAVID KEELING, RALPH MCCREADY AND EDWARD WILLIAMS MET AT THE PRINCE ALFRED PUB IN QUEENSWAY, LONDON (FIG 1 1 ) ON TUESDAY 19TH JULY 1966 TO DISCUSS THE FUTURE PROFESSIONAL SITUATION OF PHYSICIANS WORKING IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE [ 2 ] THE GROUP FORMED THE NUCLEAR MEDICINE SOCIETY (NMS) AND RESOLVED TO HOLD MEETINGS A YEAR THIS WAS A COURAGEOUS MOVE LEAVING BEHIND, AS THEY DID, THE PROTEC- TIVE ENVIRONMENT OF MORE ESTABLISHED MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS THE NMS MEETINGS WERE HELD INITIALLY AT THE MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL, LONDON AND TOOK THE FORM OF EVENING MEET- INGS FOLLOWED BY A BUFFET SUPPER INITIALLY THERE WERE NO OF? CERS BUT RALPH MCCREADY TOOK ON THE ROLE AS SECRETARY AND DAVID KEELING PRODUCED A SHORT NEWSLETTER THE ? RST AGM WAS HELD IN DECEMBER 1966 AND THE RULES AND BYELAWS WERE AGREED AND APPROVED AT A MEETING OF THE NMS AT THE MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ON 6TH OCTOBER 1967 THE ? RST FORMAL ELECTION OF NMS OF? CERS TOOK PLACE IN DECEMBER 1967 CLIVE HAYTER (LEEDS) WAS ELECTED AS ? RST PRESIDENT, RALPH MCCREADY WAS CON? RMED AS THE HONORARY SECRETARY AND STEVE GARNETT (SOUTHAMPTON) AS TREASURER AT THIS TIME THE FIG 1 1 THE PRINCE ALFRED, QUEENSWAY, LONDON RADIOCHEMISTRY FIRST STEPS BY THE LATE 1960S INTEREST IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE IN THE UK WAS GROWING FAST AND IN JUNE 1969 THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS HELD A MEETING ENTITLED ‘ADVANCES IN THE APPLICATION OF PHYSICS IN MEDICINE’ INCORPORATING ADVANCES IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE THE MAY 1970 BNMS NEWSLETTER GAVE DETAILS OF THE LONDON UNIVERSITY NUCLEAR MEDICINE MSC COURSE THAT COMMENCED LATER THAT YEAR IN 1971, EDWARD WILLIAMS, THEN HEAD OF THE INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AT THE MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL, WAS ELECTED BNMS PRESIDENT AND THE SAME YEAR BECAME THE ? RST UK PROFESSOR OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE A PAPER GIVEN BY EDWARD WILLIAMS AT THE ‘WHITHER NUCLEAR MEDICINE’ MEETING AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN LINCOLN’S FIELD IN MAY ANNUAL MEETINGS BY THE EARLY 1970S EFFORTS WERE CONCENTRATED ON THE CREATION OF AN ANNUAL MEETING AND AGM THE ? RST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BNMS TOOK PLACE IN 1973 IN THE WINDEYER BUILDING AT THE MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL AND INCLUDED A SMALL COMMERCIAL EXHIBITION [ 4 ] BY 1975, AND FOR ECONOMIC REASONS, THE ANNUAL MEETING [ 3 ] WAS HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON STUDENT’S UNION IN MALET STREET WHERE THE REGISTRATION FEE WAS £1 (£2 FOR NON-MEMBERS) THE 1976 ANNUAL MEETING WAS A 2-DAY CONFERENCE HELD IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE HPA WHERE 24 PROFFERED PAPERS WERE PRESENTED [ 5 ] THE 1978 BNMS ANNUAL MEETING WAS HELD JOINTLY WITH THE ENMS AND SNME (THE FORERUNNER ORGANISATIONS OF RADIOCHEMISTRY MEMBERSHIP AS A REGISTERED CHARITY THE BNMS IS THE ONLY INDEPENDENT MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PROFES- SIONAL FORUM IN THE UK DEVOTED TO ALL ASPECTS OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE BNMS (KNOWN AS THE COUNCIL) IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CHARITY ITS MEMBERS INCLUDE CLINICAL SCIENTISTS, NUCLEAR MEDICINE PHYSICIANS, NURSES, RADIOLO- GISTS, RADIOPHARMACISTS AND TECHNOLOGISTS INITIALLY, FULL MEMBERSHIP OF THE BNMS WAS OPEN ONLY TO MEDICALLY QUALI? ED PERSONS ALTHOUGH COUNCIL HAD THE RIGHT TO ADMIT TO MEMBERSHIP INDIVIDUALS THOUGHT TO HAVE A VALID CLAIM AT THE AGM IN 1972 THE RULES AND BYELAWS WERE CHANGED TO ALLOW NON-MEDICAL COLLEAGUES TO BECOME FULL RADIOCHEMISTRY THE JOURNAL A SIGNI? CANT DEVELOPMENT FOR NUCLEAR MEDICINE IN GENERAL AND THE BNMS IN PAR- TICULAR WAS THE CREATION OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE COMMUNICATIONS THE JOURNAL WAS FORMED TO FACILITATE RAPID COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY THE ? RST ISSUE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE COMMUNICATIONS WAS PUBLISHED IN 1980 IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE BNMS [ 8 ] THE SUCCESS STORY THAT IS NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND THE PART PLAYED BY THE BNMS IN ITS REMARKABLE PROGRESS IN THE UK CAN BE SEEN IN THE PAGES OF NMC, AS WELL AS AT SCIENTI? C MEETINGS OF THE BNMS AND ON ITS WEBPAGES RADIOCHEMISTRY REFERENCES 1 SCHICHA H, BERGDOLT K, ELL PJ, EDITORS HISTORY OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE IN EUROPE STUTTGART/NEW YORK: SCHATTHAUER; 2003 P 75–9 2 MCCREADY RV HISTORY OF THE BRITISH NUCLEAR MEDICINE SOCIETY HTTP://WWW BNMS ORG UK/ IMAGES/STORIES/HISTORY/EANM_25_ANNIVERSARY_UK PDF 3 KEELING D HISTORICAL NOTES ON THE ? RST 10 YEARS (UNPUBLISHED OBSERVATIONS) 4 MCCREADY RV 40TH ANNIVERSARY BNMS ANNUAL MEETING HTTP://WWW BNMS ORG UK/IMAGES/STO- RIES/HISTORY/HISTORY_POSTER PDF 5 HARDING LK BRITISH NUCLEAR MEDICINE SOCIETY 14TH ANNUAL MEETING NUCL MED COMMUN 1986;7:209–10 6 EDITORIAL BNMS NEWSLETTER NUCL MED COMMUN 1980;1(3):147–52 7 BNMS STRATEGIC PLAN 2010–2013 HTTP://WWW BNMS ORG UK/IMAGES/STORIES/OF? CIAL_ DOCUMENTS/BNMS_STRAT_PLAN_FINAL_2011 PDF 8 BRITTON K EDITORIAL NUCL MED COMMUN 1980;(1):1–2 RADIOCHEMISTRY A HISTORY OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE IN THE UK THE USE OF RADIOISOTOPES IN THE UK CAN BE TRACED FROM THE ? RST TRACER STUDY CARRIED OUT BY GEORGE VON HEVESY VON HEVESY WAS BORN IN HUNGARY STUDIED IN GERMANY AND CAME TO WORK WITH ERNEST RUTHERFORD IN MANCHESTER IN 1911 HIS TASK WAS TO SEPARATE RADIUM D FROM LEAD HE SUSPECTED THAT HIS LANDLADY WAS REUSING FOOD LEFT ON HIS DINNER PLATE HE PUT SOME 212 PB INTO THE LEFT OVERS AND SOME DAYS LATER USED A RADIATION DETECTOR TO DETECT IT CON? RMING THAT HIS LANDLADY WAS IN FACT RECYCLING HIS FOOD (FIG 2 1 ) FIG 2 1 GEORGES VON HEVESY