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Nuclear chemistry can be used in many different ways to create new and useful things. in many situations it is being used to help people such as when they use the nuclear chemistry to make nuclear medicine or making atomic bombs for the war. One way that i feel that nuclear chemistry is really helping out people is how they have nuclear medicine.

Nuclear Medicine is molecular imaging and the moecular imaging produces pictures of the inside of the body. Doctors use nuclear medicine to check different things inside of the patients body. The way the doctors look inside the body is that they give their patients radioactive substances and the radiation emitted is detected. The tests done on the patients are done with a gama camera or positrom emission tomography, other tests use probes to get meaurements from parts of the body.

Nuclear medicine differs from most types of imaging modalities. Nuclear medicine examines the physiological functions of the system being investigated oppose to getting an MRI or CT which is the traditional way of getting something checked out in your body. When getting scanned with nuclear medicine sometimes the image can be superimposed and will show a better picture of the insides of your body than a traditional scan could do.

Someone who is undergoing a nuclear medicine procedure will recieve a radiation dose by their doctor. Although the doese is small the dose still presents a risk of enducing cancer. Nuclear medicine images can assist the physician in diagnossing diseases such as Tumors, infection and other disorders.

some specific things nuclear medicine can be used for is Analysing the kidney function, image blood flow and function of the heart, scan lungs for resperatory and blood-flow problems, identify blockage of gallbladder, evaluate bones for tumors fracture infection or arthritis, determine the presence or spread of cancer, identify of bleeding into bowel, locate the presence of infection, etc.

this is what an x-ray would like when you are going through a nuclear medicine procedure.

this is one of the machines they use to look at the inside of the body and this has radioactivity in it and also a camera.

Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_medicine http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=gennuclear http://fairmontdiagnostic.com/images/1.07.06banners-on-nuclear.jpg