This title appears in the Scientific Report :
2017
Please use the identifier:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2016.12.005 in citations.
Do we say what we mean and mean what we say?
Do we say what we mean and mean what we say?
Over the last 7 decades the use of radionuclides in the natural andlife sciences has been crucial in enabling groundbreaking discoveriesin basic research and its application to the understanding, diagnosingand treatment of human disease. Numerous innovations in nuclearchemistry/physics, radiochemist...
| Personal Name(s): | Coenen, Heinrich Hubert (Corresponding author) |
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| Gee, Antony D. | |
| Contributing Institute: |
Nuklearchemie; INM-5 |
| Published in: | Nuclear medicine and biology, 45 (2017) S. 53 - 54 |
| Imprint: |
Amsterdam [u.a.]
Elsevier Science
2017
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| PubMed ID: |
28034416 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2016.12.005 |
| Document Type: |
Journal Article |
| Research Program: |
Methods and Concepts for Material Development Neuroimaging |
| Publikationsportal JuSER |
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Over the last 7 decades the use of radionuclides in the natural andlife sciences has been crucial in enabling groundbreaking discoveriesin basic research and its application to the understanding, diagnosingand treatment of human disease. Numerous innovations in nuclearchemistry/physics, radiochemistry and instrumentation (from nuclearreactors and cyclotrons to new imaging devices) have enabled the ap-plication of radiolabeled molecules in biochemistry, physiology, phar-macology, clinical diagnosis and therapy. These developments haverelied on the continual evolution of cross-disciplinary interactions be-tween researchfields, resulting in a new generation of researchersfrom disparate scientific backgrounds working very successfullytogether.The importance of a unified language betweenfields has long beenrecognized and resulted in the establishment of SI units and IUPAC no-menclature to enableunambiguous scientific communication. However,despite this, the meaning of scientific terms has sometimes beeninterpreted in slightly different ways within different disciplines. Overrecent years in thefield of radiopharmaceutical sciences we havewitnessed an increased incidence of ambiguous scientificlanguage.Many examples of the incorrect usage of established terms and conven-tions and the appearance of new‘self-invented’terms can now be foundin theliterature and at scientific meetings.Thedeparture from the useofa common language is contributing to misunderstanding and confusionwithin our scientific community, and in our communication with otherscientificdisciplines |