Quantitative Medicine: The Existence and Survival of Nuclear Medicine in the Era of Personalized Medicine

摘要

Nuclear Medicine, originated from de Havey's tracer principle, was defined by my mentor at the Johns Hopkins University, Prof. Henry Wagner, Jr in his book: "Principle and Practice of Nuclear Medicine", as the quantitative study of regional pathophysiology and biochemistry on an anatomically configured image (at a molecular level as later on amended in his highlight lectures) [1]. The existence of Nuclear Medicine as a specialty owes to this time-proven definition.