The Development of Taiwan Nucl. Med. Prof. Wen-Sheng Huang, M.D ： The radioisotope Lab. established at National Taiwan U National Defense Medical Center established the Central Atomic Medical Research Lab ： NTU established a thyroid uptake machine ： National Tsing Hua U (Taiwan) established a nuclear reactor (THOR) and provided I-131 for clinical use ： Taipei Veterans General Hosp (TVGH) purchased a γ- counter, a thyroid uptake machine and a linear scanner ： Dr. Shine-HwaYeh ( 葉鑫華 ) (in US, Stanford U.) published “Tc-99m (V)-Citrate Complex” in JNM and Nature ： Dr. Yeh established the Nucl. Med. Center in TVGH and Tri-Service General Hosp ： TVGH established the clinical RIA Lab ： Taiwan Institute of Nuclear Energy Research (INER) commercialized oral I ： Establishment of The Society of Nucl. Med., Taiwan (ROC) ： 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) ： Multi-purpose cyclotron center established in TVGH (with Scanditronix PET) ： 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 ： The governmental health insurance reimbursed F-18 FDG PET. Taiwanese Society of Molecular Imaging established Taiwanese Society of Medical Cyclotron established 2010: 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 Peter Shine-Hwa Yeh is the 1st & 2nd president. The 1 st 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 7 th president. Cheng-Yi Cheng ( 鄭澄意 ) has been elected as 8 th president since

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)

Examinationsannual numbercontribution(%)annual numbercontribution(%)annual numbercontribution(%) Neuro 6,1402.2%5,8081.9%4,8601.8% Endocrine 15,0775.4%15,4465.1%33, % Respiratory 2,8581.0%2,5600.8%3,6201.3% GI 8,6313.1%9,1633.0%8,0252.9% GU 8,9663.2%9,1313.0%9,1463.3% Skeletal 116, %120, %110, % Inflam/Tumor 16,6055.9%14,5544.8%19,1267.0% CV 105, %101, %84, % FDG PET ? 27,522 (30,381) 9.0 % (9.8%) ? Total 280,388 (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)