Uso de radioisótopos en medicina. El rol de la Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica en su impulso (1950-1982) / Use of radioisotopes in medicine. The role of the National Atomic Energy Comission in its development (1950-1982)

La política de desarrollo autónomo desplegada por la Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica al cabo de sus primeras tres décadas de vida, condujo a la expansión y enraizamiento del sector nuclear argentino en diversas areas. Con respecto al área médica, si bien el uso de radioisótopos con fines clínicos, así como de investigación contaba al momento de la emergencia del sector nuclear, con un significante número de antecedentes en el país, con la institucionalización de las actividades nucleares, a partir de la creación de la Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica en 1950, el desarrollo de las aplicaciones nucleares con fines médicos cobraría un fuerte impulso. Esto fue así, en la medida en que se destinaron esfuerzos en: investigación y capacitación, abastecimiento de radioisótopos y puesta en marcha de centros clínicos de medicina nuclear. En este artículo, entonces, veremos como la búsqueda de capacidades científico-tecnológicas propias tuvo cierto paralelismo en el área médica, logrando incipientes descubrimientos científicos, el autoabastecimiento de radioisótopos y la operación de dos centros clínicos que prestaban asistencia a pacientes

During its first three decades of life, the National Atomic Energy Comission unrolled an autonomous policy of development that lead to the expansion and embedment of the Argentinian nuclear sector in different fields. Although in the medical field, the use of radioisotopes for research and clinical purposes held, at the emergence of the nuclear sector, with a significant number of studies, with the institutionalization of nuclear activities, with the creation of the National Atomic Energy Comission in 1950, the development of nuclear applications for medical purposes gained great impulse. This was possible, due to the assignment of resources in three strategic lines: investigation and professional training, provision of radioisotopes and administration and operation of clinical centers of nuclear medicine. In this article, then, we will see how the quest for autonomous technology development had its side effects in the medical area, leading to important scientific discoveries, the self-supply of radioisotopes and the operation of two clinic centers of nuclear medicine that provided care to patients

Nuclear pharmacy, Part I: Emergence of the specialty of nuclear pharmacy.

OBJECTIVE: Nuclear pharmacy was the first formally recognized area in pharmacy designated as a specialty practice. The events leading to nuclear pharmacy specialty recognition are described in this article. After reading this article the nuclear medicine technologist or nuclear pharmacist should be able to: (a) describe the status of nuclear pharmacy before recognition as a specialty practice; (b) describe the events that stimulated pharmacists to organize a professional unit to meet the needs of nuclear pharmacists; and (c) identify the steps by which nuclear pharmacists become board certified in nuclear pharmacy.

[Historical development of the Radiology Department of the 1st and 2d University Women's Hospital Vienna]. / Zur historischen Entwicklung der Strahlenabteilung der I. und II. Universitäts-Frauenklinik Wien.

A historical review is given on the installation of the Department of Radiotherapy of the 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and its further development to the Department of Irradiation of the 1st and 2nd Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Vienna University. The milestones of the last 40 years like the change to the "New Stockholm Method" (1954), the new construction and adaptation (1968-1972) with the installation of a telecobalt-therapy-unit (1972), the conjunction of the department of radiotherapy of both university departments to a single department in the same year and finally the introduction of the after-loading method in brachytherapy (1980) are pointed out specifically.