Dr. Sadegh Nezam-mafi ( fa, صادق نظام‌مافی, 1925 in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

– 2009 in Tehran) was an Iranian physician and a pioneer of

nuclear medicine Nuclear medicine or nucleology is a medical specialty involving the application of radioactive substances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Nuclear imaging, in a sense, is "radiology done inside out" because it records radiation emitting ...

in Iran. He introduced nuclear

endocrinology Endocrinology (from '' endocrine'' + '' -ology'') is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones. It is also concerned with the integration of developmental event ...

to the country in 1960 with a thyroid probe and a

rectilinear scanner A rectilinear scanner is an imaging device, used to capture emission from radiopharmaceuticals in nuclear medicine. The image is created by physically moving a radiation detector over the surface of a radioactive patient. It has become obsolete in ...

. In 1972 he published "Diagnostic Value of Liver Scan in Operated Echinococcus Cyst" in the German journal ''Strahlentherapie Sonderb''.

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Iranian nuclear medicine physicians Year of birth uncertain University of Pittsburgh alumni 1925 births 2009 deaths {{Iran-med-bio-stub