Nuclear Radiation Medicine

In nuclear medicine imaging tests injected radioactive substances do not harm the body.

New mexico nuclear waste accident. Radiation is used in nuclear medicine and radiology. Are there special precautions i need to take after my diagnostic nuclear medicine. Nuclear medicine differs from general radiology in the following respects.

Most diagnostic investigations in nuclear medicine expose the patient to a small dose of radiation similar to that received in an x ray. Today to benefit humankind radiation is used in medicine academics and industry as well as for generating electricity. This interaction between ionizing radiation and.

The radiation dose that you get is usually very low and doesnt pose serious health risks. What is general nuclear medicine. Although scientists have only known about radiation since the 1890s they have developed a wide variety of uses for this natural force.

Nuclear medicine scans are generally safe and have been around in some form for about 50 years. The radioisotopes used in nuclear medicine decay quickly in minutes to hours have lower radiation levels than a typical x ray or ct scan and are eliminated in the urine or bowel movement. Nuclear medicine is a medical specialty involving the application of radioactive substances in the diagnosis and treatment of diseasenuclear medicine imaging in a sense is radiology done inside out or endoradiology because it records radiation emitting from within the body rather than radiation that is generated by external sources like x raysin addition nuclear medicine scans differ.

You are not exposed to radiation from a machine outside the body you are administered intravenously or by mouth a substance that is radioactive you become radioactive for a short time and with this radioactive substance in your body we can actually determine if organs in the body are functioning. Nuclear medicine uses radioactive chemicals called radiopharmaceuticals which are taken into the body either by injection into a vein by mouth or by breathing them in. How do doses and risk from nuclear medicine compare to x rays.

Information for radiation workers. It can eject an electron from an atom. These include many types of cancers heart disease gastrointestinal endocrine or neurological disorders and other abnormalities.

Radiation particularly associated with nuclear medicine and the use of nuclear energy along with x rays is ionizing radiation which means that the radiation has sufficient energy to interact with matter especially the human body and produce ions ie.