Nuclear Medicine

Radioactive materials are used in diagnostic or pathological imaging

- Nuclear medicine is the branch of medicine that involves the administration of radiopharmaceuticals in order to diagnose and treat disease. The scanner produces images by detecting a small amount of a radioactive tracer in your body, which is either injected, swallowed or inhaled.
- Nuclear imaging is described as the most important peaceful applications of nuclear physics and one of the most important accurate medical methods for diagnosing and treating a number of tumors and diseases, in addition to the possibility of detecting a number of pathological changes in a way that was not available in the past.
- As a result of certain chemical changes that contribute to the diagnosis of the disease in its early stages.