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Table 3 Twenty-five years of seminal discoveries

From: The contribution of medical physics to nuclear medicine: a physician's perspective

1951	Rectilinear scanner	Benedict Cassen	American physicist	1902 to 1972
1953	CBF with radio krypton	Niels Lassen	Danish physician	1926 to 1997
1958	Anger gamma camera	Hal O. Anger	American engineer	1920 to 2005
1959	Radioimmunoassay	Rosalin S. Yalow	American physicist	1921 to 2011
		Solomon Berson	Americal physician	1918 to 1972
1960	Saturation analysis	Roger Ekins	British biophysicist	b. 1936
1962	Tc-99 m generator	Paul Harper	American surgeon	1915 to 2005
		Katherine Lathrope	American physicist	1915 to 2005
1962	SPET	David Kuhl	American physician	b. 1929
1971	Polyphosphates	Gopal Subramanian	American chemist	1953 to 2000
1973	PET	Michel Ter-Pogossian	American physicist	1925 to 1996
		Michael Phelps	American biophysicist	b. 1939

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