Seminars in Nuclear Medicine•

JANUAR)', 1971

Foreword

VOL.I,NO.l

AS PRESIDr:NT OF THE SOCIETY OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE, I wouldft like to extend our best wishes to the editors and publishers of this newjournal and to the future contributors. Seminars in Nuclear Medicine shouldplay an important role in this new, rapidly growing field. It is because of thediversity and. multidisciplinary character of nuclear medicine that a journallimiting each issue to a specifio topic should De of particular value. Selectedsubjects of current interest will be covered in depth and the viewpoints ofestablished experts brought together for comprehensive coverage of the sub­ject. Material emphasizing clinical applicability, but with a broad scope,should provide interest to both the clinical and nonclinical scientist. The humanmind seems to benefit from the juxtaposition of material which is clearly inter­related but which might otherwise be distributed over a variety of journals,beyond the reach of even the most avid practitioner. This new journal canserve the role of a continuously renewing, up -to-the-minute textbook in a fieldwhose rapidity of change mandates the shortest possible delay between thecompleted manuscript and the published article. These rapidly publishedreviews by people active in the field will, hopefully, help the reader evaluateand choose procedures of proven utility.

I hope that the editors and contributors will approach these goals creativelyand mold one more strengthening factor in this still young, but maturing fieldof Nuclear Medicine, Best wishes and good luckl

HENRY N. WAGNER, JR., M.D.Johns Hopkins Medical InstitutionsBaltimore, Md.

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