[Nuclear medicine: medical technology research].
AIM, METHOD: The scientific publications in the 2003 and 2004 issues of the journal Nuklearmedizin were analyzed retrospectively with regard to the proportion of medical technology research.


RESULTS
Out of a total of 73 articles examined, 9 (12%) were classified as medical technology research, that is, 8/15 of the original papers (16%) and one of the case reports (5%). Of these 9 articles, 44% (4/9) focused on the combination of molecular and morphological imaging with direct technical appliance or information technology solutions.


CONCLUSIONS
Medical technology research is limited in the journal's catchment area. The reason for this is related to the interdependency between divergent development dynamics in the medical technology industry's locations, the many years that the area of scintigraphic technology has been underrepresented, research policy particularly in discrepancies in the promotion of molecular imaging and a policy in which health is not perceived as a predominantly good and positive economic factor, but more as a curb to economic development.
Lerch
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Klinik für Nuklearmedizin, HELIOS Klinikum Wuppertal, Heusnerstr. 40, 42283 Wuppertal. hlerch@wuppertal.helios-kliniken.de
Jigalin
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D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D009683:Nuclear Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing; D012106:Research / Q000639:trends*