Robert Nason Beck
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American nuclear medicine researcher
Robert Nason Beck's Degrees
- PhD Nuclear Medicine Stanford University
Why Is Robert Nason Beck Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Nason Beck was an American scientist and a pioneer in the field of nuclear medicine. Part of a University of Chicago team, he was the first to propose, in 1961, the use of the radioisotope technetium-99m to detect disease using Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, a technique that is used an estimated 20 million times a year throughout the world. Beck also helped develop collimators for sharpening the images produced by gamma-ray scanners, and was referred to as 'Mr. Collimator' by colleagues.
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