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Nuclear Medicine Myles Bernstein

Nuclear medicine is a division of radiology. The object is to show images of our body’s anatomy. The diction of energy emitted from radioactive material given to the patient from an IV or mouth produces diagnostic results that help the doctors diagnose the patient.

This procedure is safe, painless and a good way to get images of the body and treat diseases. Medical information is gathered without doing surgery. Nuclear medicine imaging procedures often identify problems early on.

Very small amounts of radioactive materials are used to diagnose and treat diseases. The imaging is done by special cameras that work with computers to provide precise pictures of the body part being x-rayed. The amount of radiation in a typical imaging procedure is the same as an x-ray

The radioisotope camera was developed in 1950s by Hal O. Anger. He worked on his development for many years. “What Anger did was brilliant and is hard to improve on” said Stanly J. Goldsmith, MD, New York hospital/ Cornell Medical Center New York. Anger wrote an article titled “Scintillation, camera” which was published in the review of scientific instruments in 1958.

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 * Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology** Volume 33, Number 4, 2005 250-253

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