See Also: Nuclear medicine(medicine)
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nuclear medicine physician(medicine)
Nuclear medicine scan(health)
nuclear medicine department, hospital(medicine)
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Nuclear medicine imaging techniques(health)
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Nuclear Medicine (health)


Imaging technique where small amounts of radioactive substances (radio-isotopes) are injected into a patient to trace disease processes. Sometimes the radioactive substance may concentrate directly in an organ/tissue, but in most cases it has to be attached to a carrier molecule with a "preference" for a certain tissue or disease process. The concentrated radioactivity may be detected by a so-called gamma camera as typical "hot spots".