Intro -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Past Presidents of the BNMS -- Preface -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1: History of the BNMS 1966-2016 -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 The Original Four -- 1.3 First Steps -- 1.4 Annual Meetings -- 1.5 Joint Meetings with EANM -- 1.6 Membership -- 1.7 Aims and Objectives -- 1.8 The Journal -- References -- 2: A History of Nuclear Medicine in the UK -- References -- 3: The Evolution of Training in Nuclear Medicine in the UK -- References -- 4: A Technologists Viewpoint -- 4.1 Training -- 4.2 The Role -- 4.3 Research -- 4.4 BNMS and Professional Development -- 4.5 The Future -- References -- 5: Evolution of Nuclear Medicine Physics in the UK -- References -- 6: The Institute of Nuclear Medicine London -- 6.1 UK Introduction of PETCT and PETMR -- 6.2 The Institute of Nuclear Medicine: National and International Impact on Standards, Teaching, Publishing and Organisation -- Selected References -- 7: A History of Nuclear Medicine in the UK Radionuclide Investigation of the Brain -- 7.1 Neuroreceptor Studies -- Key References -- 8: A History of Nuclear Cardiology in the UK -- 8.1 Historical Perspective -- 8.2 Radionuclide Ventriculography -- 8.3 Myocardial Perfusion Scintigraphy -- 8.4 Pharmacological stress -- 8.5 NICE and the UK Societies -- 8.6 The Future -- References -- 9: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Paediatric Nuclear Medicine in the UK -- Key References -- 10: Renal Radionuclide Studies -- 10.1 Essential Hypertension -- 10.2 Measurement Based Medicine -- 10.3 Outflow Efficiency -- 10.4 Transit Times -- 10.5 Renovascular Disorders -- 10.6 Obstructing Uropathy -- 10.7 Frusemide Response -- References -- 11: St Bartholomew's Hospital and Medical School: Department of Nuclear Medicine -- 11.1 Personal Reflections -- 11.2 IAEA -- 11.3 IRCF -- 11.4 EANM.

11.5 Other Collaborative Work -- 11.6 The Present and Future -- 12: Nuclear Medicine at the Hammersmith Hospital -- References -- 13: Nuclear Medicine in Nottingham: Antibodies, Gamma Probes and Drug Delivery -- References -- 14: The Introduction and Development of Clinical PET in the United Kingdom -- 15: Bone Radionuclide Imaging, Quantitation and Bone Densitometry -- 15.1 Radionuclide Imaging of Bone -- 15.2 Quantitation of Bone Tracer Kinetics -- 15.3 Bone Densitometry -- References -- 16: Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine in the UK -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Radioiodine -- 16.3 Relieving Bone Pain -- 16.4 Theranostics -- 16.5 The Double-Whammy -- 16.6 Dosimetry -- 16.7 The Future -- References -- 17: Hospital Radiopharmacy in the UK -- References -- 18: Development of Computers in Nuclear Medicine -- References -- 19: The Future Direction of Radiopharmaceutical Development -- References -- 20: A Personal Reflection.

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