Nuclear medicine refers to the use of radioactivity to diagnose and treat diseases. Nuclear medicine is a rapidly expanding branch of chemistry that uses short-lived radioisotopes to seek out specific organs. Nuclear medicine can detect radiation coming from inside a patient’s body and as a result nuclear medicine can determine the cause of the medical problems based on organ’s function. The use of nuclear medicine techniques have increased due to its’ use of biological chemistry to target specific
• The procedures of nuclear medicine imaging are non-invasive. 1 Because of this imaging technology, different medical instruments are not used into the body while detecting or diagnosing a disease. In this way, patients do not feel any pain of the medical instruments as different radioactive materials are used to determine the disease in their body. • Nuclear medicine investigation offers information that is unique including on both function and structure and often inaccessible using other imaging
Nuclear Medicine is the use of radioisotopes for diagnosis, treatment, and research. Radioactive chemical tracers emit gamma rays which provides diagnostic information about a person's anatomy and the functioning of specific organs. Radioisotopes are also utilizes in treatments of diseases such as cancer. It is estimated that approximately one in two people in Western countries are likely to experience the benefits of nuclear medicine in their lifetime. To understand what a radioactive isotope
Nuclear Medicine Brenda L. Clark Argosy University Contemporary Applications of the Sciences Module 4 Assignment 2 Dr. Frankin Barrish Nuclear medicine is being used to help fight diseases as well as being able to take Images of an individual’s body (News Medical, 2015). The radioactive substance works with the nuclear medicine and this is important because it aids with looking inside the opaque human body (News Medical, 2015). Within this paper you will read how the technical and scientific
Nuclear Medicine Argosy University Nuclear medicine is a specialized branch of modern medicine that exploits the process of radioactivity for imaging, diagnosis, and treatment. Many imaging techniques inject small amounts of radioactive material into the body, which are then tracked by a sensing device specific to the type of radiation emitted from that material. Radiation has also been used to destroy diseased tissue, typically beyond the reach of standard surgical techniques. Nuclear Medicine
Running head: NUCLEAR MEDICINE 1 Concepts of Nuclear Medicine NUCLEAR MEDICINE 2 Concepts of Nuclear Medicine * What type of radiation is typically exploited in most nuclear medicine procedures? Nuclear Medicine is a specialty used to diagnose and treat diseases in a painless and safe manner, which uses a pharmaceutical (medicine) that’s attached to a small amount of radioactive material (a radioisotope). The procedures can often identify disease in an early stage
Nuclear medicine, based on Merriam Webster dictionary, nuclear medicine is “a branch of medicine dealing with the use of radioactive materials in the diagnosis and treatment disease.” Providing doctors widespread information about the functions and structures of the body, it is quickly expanding to new heights. Even though the history of Nuclear Medicine is undetermined, News Medical historians, propose that it was discovered by Frédéric Joliot-Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie in the year of 1934.
Nuclear medicine is a relatively new process of medical practice in which radioactive material is used to treat disease, inflammation, infection, and clotting disorders. (Nuclear Medicine Radiochemistry Society, n.d.) The treatment of these conditions comes in medicinal form, through radiopharmaceuticals. “[Radiopharmaceuticals] may be put into a vein, taken by mouth, or placed in a body cavity. Depending on the drug and how it’s given, these materials travel to various parts of the body to treat
How has nuclear medicine innovated science and society? Within the last century, science faced several discoveries that caused the scientific community and society to change one another. When evaluating the scientific discoveries during the twentieth century, the decisive advancements took place in the study of nuclear physics. Affecting both science and society inquires formed around medical uses for nuclear materials. Advanced research in nuclear science with radioisotopes allowed doctors to treat
Therapeutic nuclear medicine has come a long way over the last decade. More than 20 million Americans now benefit each year from nuclear medicine procedures used to diagnose and treat a wide variety of diseases (SNMMI and Safe/Beneficial Medical Uses of Radiation, 2017). This type of therapy is often used as a means to treat hyperthyroidism, thyroid cancer, bone metastases from prostate and breast tumors, as well as other types of cancer and diseases. It can be used alone or in combination with