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Nuclear Medicine – use of very small amount of radiation material to diagnose and sometimes treat diseases – use tiny amount of short-live radioactive material Can provide: • Accurate images that help health-care professionals study the body’s internal organs and tissues. • Valuable information and measurements of organ and tissue function. • Therapy – a way of fighting the diseases The basic procedure: 1. A radioactive material (AN “ISOTOPE”)- is administered in one of the several ways: • injection or IV • capsules • special tubing • inhalation 2. The isotope travels to “target” organs and tissues. – Different isotopes Click Here To Read More