Nuclear medicine

Technetium -99m is the workhorse radioisotope used in 80% of nuclear medicine worldwide. It can help diagnose many diseases such as heart, kidney, lung, liver, thyroid and bone cancer. Uses: 1. Technetium -99m is used to image the skeleton, heart muscles, brain, thyroid, lungs, and bone marrow. Technitium-99, is used as radioactive tracer which can be detected in the body by gamma cameras. Computers process the image when the gamma camera is rotated around the patient. It takes 15-20 seconds for

For this assignment I was fortunate enough to interview my uncle who’s a nuclear medicine Technologist BSN. He graduated in 2008. He has working in the hospital for over 6 years now and over the years he has gain an insurmountable amount of experience. Along with that came increase of pay. While interviewed him he elaborated on how they use medical imaging as radioactive isotopes, which relies on the process of radioactive decay to treat a diagnosis of disease, a patient might be having. He seems

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a type of nuclear medicine imaging which uses radiotracers or also called as radiopharmaceuticals − minute amount of radioactive substances-labelled bio-compounds. This test shows the function of tissues and organs such as sugar metabolism, oxygen use and blood flow instead of mere structural images of, for instance blood flow to and from organs illustrated by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT). This feature makes it a useful diagnostic

The main imaging equipment in nuclear medicine is gamma camera. A gamma Camera detects gamma rays emitted by a radiopharmaceutical in the patient’s body. The camera reveals the distribution of radioactive material in a patient and this distribution is determined by the uptake of radiopharmaceutical, which is dependent on the function of the body. For example, in bone scan, technetium-99 m is injected into the patient’s body, this travels through the blood, and it’s metabolised and accumulated in

radiopharmaceutical industry. “PET is imaging for cancer. Fluorine-18 is synthesised into fluorodeoxyglucose for PET.” (Wikipedia). It is a nuclear medicine functional imaging technique that is used to observe metabolic processes in the body as an aid to the diagnosis of disease. Fluorine-18 is used in PET because it is substituted for hydroxyl and

What is a gastric emptying study? The definition of a gastric emptying study is “a procedure that is done by nuclear medicine physicians using radioactive chemicals that measures the speed with which food empties from the stomach and enters the small intestine”. What does it have to do with nuclear medicine and radioactive elements? That’s a good question. It has to do with radioactive elements because the meal, liquid, or both are mixed with a little bit of radioactive material, than gamma rays

the use of radiation in medicine was limited with the fluorography which we had every year before final exams. Once a week, I and my classmates participated in a Physics Club under the direction of the head of the Department of Theoretical and Nuclear Physics where we considered the problems of Modern Physics. During one of these meetings, the professor told us the thought-provoking stories about successful oncology surgeries of brains and his plans to build a Nuclear Medicine research center in coming

Other uses of nuclear power included Military: The US Navy has all submarines and aircraft carriers moving by nuclear propulsion this lowers petroleum oil use (ships and aircrafts) by 15%. The US Military has several Nuclear Weapons Types: Warheads:The term warhead refers to the explosive and/or toxic material that is delivered by a missile, rocket, or torpedo;Bombs, Atomic Demolition Munition(ADM) ,Artillery Shell,ASW (anti-submarine warfare),ASW warhead,ASW warhead / Bomb, Torpedoes,Inter-continental

Case Study 1C Nuclear Radiation: Iodine-131 and Graves’ Disease Jon Garrett Michele Healy Paul Sowers Donale Whitney Case Study 1C Nuclear Radiation: Iodine-131 and Graves’ Disease A patient is diagnosed with Graves’ disease. The physician determines that the best course of action is to administer iodine-131… Iodine-131 is the radioactive isotope of iodine. It was discovered in 1938 by Glenn T. Seaborg and John Livingood at the University of California - Berkeley. This radioisotope has an

To many people "cobalt bomb" may sound like something that was used in a World War to kill off the enemies, however they’d be shocked to know that it’s actually a cancer-treating machine that was created and tested in the 1950s in Saskatchewan. The device was originally installed at the University of Saskatchewan on August 17, 1951 (Willett, Edward), and was the invention of Dr. Harold Elford Johns. The name probably derived from all of the atomic bombs that were in the news those years following