Editorial

This issue of the Seminars in Nuclear Medicine is devoted to a subject that was one of the earliest applications of radionuclide methodology in clinical medicine. It represents a selection of articles from a meeting that has been held triennially continuously since 1971. Drs Jean Louis Funk-Brentano and M. Donald Blaufox decided to form a group that would pursue the subject of radionuclides in diseases of the kidneys and urinary tract after attending a meeting on the subject in Liege Belgium in 1967. The first of these meetings was held in 1971 in New York City and they have been held regularly at approximately 3-year intervals ever since. A full history of the group is available in an earlier publication. Initially, the proceedings of the meetings were published as freestanding volumes, but as the demand for meeting proceedings began to decline, this type of publication became impractical. In 2008, the editors of the Seminars in Nuclear Medicine decided that it would be appropriate and useful to publish selected articles from the meeting to provide an overview of the areas of progress and importance in clinical renal nuclear medicine. The articles in this current issue of the seminars are derived from presentations at the 15th triennial meeting that was held in Varese, Italy, in October 2013. A summary and overview of that meeting is presented in the accompanying editorial comment from Dr Diego DePalma who was the chairman and organizer of those sessions. More information ab...

Source: Seminars in Nuclear Medicine - February 3, 2014 Category: Radiology Authors: Leonard M. Freeman, M. Donald Blaufox Source Type: research