The Development of Taiwan Nucl. Med.Prof. Wen-Sheng Huang, M.D.

1955 ： The radioisotope Lab. established at National Taiwan U.1956. National Defense Medical Center established the Central Atomic Medical Research Lab. 1957 ： NTU established a thyroid uptake machine.1961 ： National Tsing Hua U (Taiwan) established a nuclear reactor (THOR) and provided I-131 for clinical use.1965 ： Taipei Veterans General Hosp (TVGH) purchased a γ-counter, a thyroid uptake machine and a linear scanner.1967 ： Dr. Shine-HwaYeh (葉鑫華 ) (in US, Stanford U.) published “Tc-99m (V)-Citrate Complex” in JNM and

Nature.1968 ： Dr. Yeh established the Nucl. Med. Center in TVGH and Tri-Service General Hosp. 1975 ： TVGH established the clinical RIA Lab. 1984 ： Taiwan Institute of Nuclear Energy Research (INER) commercialized oral I-131.1987 ： Establishment of The Society of Nucl. Med., Taiwan (ROC). 1988 ： Board of Nucl. Med., Taiwan (ROC) established [1 of the 23 governmental recognized (independent) boards]. The 4th AOFNMB held in Taipei (Peter Yeh) with pre-congress meeting (Samuel Yeh).1992 ： Multi-purpose cyclotron center established in TVGH (with Scanditronix PET).1993 ： INER built medium sized negative charged cyclotron (EBCO, 30MeV).1996: The 1st. cross-strait nuclear medicine symposium held in Taipei.1997: Dept. of Health released “Guidelines for preparations of PET drugs”2005 ： INER provided Tc-99m TRODAT-1 and In-111 Octreotide for clinical use.2006 ： The governmental health insurance reimbursed F-18 FDG PET. Taiwanese Society of Molecular Imaging established Taiwanese Society of Medical Cyclotron established2010: The governmental health insurance reimbursed F-18 NaF.2014: NM Residency training program (RRC) reformed. NTU Linko CGGH purchased the whole body PET/MRI.

The Society established in Mar. 1987. Peter Shine-Hwa Yeh is the 1st & 2nd president. The 1st committee members (Fig.) include William Wei-Lian Chen (陳維廉 ), Kai-Yuan Tzen (曾凱元 ), Ren-Shyan Liu (劉仁賢 ) & Wei-Ren Yao (姚維仁 ). All used to being the presidents. Wen-Sheng Huang (黃文盛 ) is the 7th president. Cheng-Yi Cheng (鄭澄意 ) has been elected as 8th president since 2014-11

No., distribution of cyclotron, imaging facilities & manpower

● Mini-cyclotron: 10● Medium-cyclotron (30 MeV): 1● PET or PET/CT: 41 SPECT or SPECT/CT: 113

NM Physician: 127 Radiological Technician: 207 Clinical Lab. Technician: 85 Pharmacist: 31

Profession

Society active member: 590

Total population: 23 millions

Annual N0. and % contribution (2010)

246,832(PET not included)

2013 2012 2011

Examinations annual number contribution(%) annual number contribution(%) annual number contribution(%)

Neuro 6,140 2.2% 5,808 1.9% 4,860 1.8%

Endocrine 15,077 5.4% 15,446 5.1% 33,461 12.2%

Respiratory 2,858 1.0% 2,560 0.8% 3,620 1.3%

GI 8,631 3.1% 9,163 3.0% 8,025 2.9%

GU 8,966 3.2% 9,131 3.0% 9,146 3.3%

Skeletal 116,463 41.5% 120,264 39.3% 110,609 40.5%

Inflam/Tumor 16,605 5.9% 14,554 4.8% 19,126 7.0%

CV 105,648 37.7% 101,366 33.1% 84,516 30.9%

FDG PET ? 27,522 (30,381)

9.0 % (9.8%)

?

Total280,388

(PET not included)

100%

305,814 (308,673)

278,292 (PET not included

100%273,363

(PET not included)

100%

Annual No. and % contribution (2011-3)