Nuclear medicine 3 Articles

by Alicia M Prater PhD

Nuclear medicine is a branch of medicine based on the nuclear properties of matter. The procedures involved in diagnosis, such as medical imaging, and therapy use radiopharmaceuticals (drugs labeled with radionuclides). Th...read more

by John Graham

MEDICAL IMAGING "Go and look at your toes, John," my Mother used to tell me when she was choosing shoes. So I would obediently trot off to the X-ray machine. Not that I was ever really obedient but I liked the X-ray...read more

by Adithya Sridhar

Radiation therapy is the use of high energy radiation to kill tumor cells. X-ray's, gamma rays etc are generally used for radio-therapy. Radiation therapy is of two major types. First one is tele-therapy or external be...read more