Nuclear Medicine and Technology



Nuclear Medicine and Technology

Nuclear medicine

Nuclear medicine involves the application of radioactive substances and nuclear-physical methods in medicine for functional and localization diagnosis of open and radionuclide in the therapy and radiation protection with its physical, biological and medical foundations.

Applications

Functional imaging in vivo, which involves the administration of a radioactive tracer to the patient's external detection. These are the scans (emission of gamma rays) or PET (Positron Emission Tomography).

Laboratory diagnosis in vitro: this is the radioimmunoassay.

The metabolic radiotherapy: this includes therapeutic applications using the administration of a radioactive product whose career in the field is small enough to ...