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nuclear medicine

[′nü·klē·ər ′med·ə·sən]
(medicine)
A branch of medicine in which radioactive pharmaceuticals are used for imaging or other diagnostic studies.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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However, perfusion CT is less expensive than radionuclide imaging. Moreover, the data obtained with CT perfusion may be used in similar perfusion studies performed with magnetic resonance imaging, which does not have the disadvantage of radiation exposure.
Abbara and Kalva (radiology, Harvard Medical School) offer residents, fellows, scientists, biomedical researchers, and practitioners in cardiology and radiology a 51-chapter text on cardiovascular imaging, including multidetector computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, radionuclide imaging, ultrasound and echocardiography, and catheter angiography.
Radionuclide imaging of the breast covers a number of different forms of nuclear medicine scans, from positron emission mammography (PEM) to breast-specific gamma imaging to molecular breast imaging (MBI).
-- Radionuclide imaging products that reliably detect cerebral amyloid deposits would be clinically useful in ruling out a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in patients with cognitive impairment, according to a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel.
At a meeting of the FDA's Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee, the panel considered the clinical utility of investigational radionuclide imaging products that detect amyloid in the brain, but did not focus on a specific product.
Carter (formerly of Shaffield Halam U.) begins by describing x-ray imaging, including its properties and principles, then moves to the science behind the formation of the incident beam and its production efficiency, the formation of the emergent beam, including its influence on body tissue, the formation of a visible image, including a range of receptors, computed tomography, including descriptions of equipment and processing, radionuclide imaging, ultrasound imaging, and magnetic resonance imaging.
This article reviews the clinical aspects of prosthetic joint failure, the appearances of aseptic loosening and infection on various radionuclide imaging studies, and the advantages and disadvantages of these procedures.
The American Heart Association/American College Cardiology (AHA/ACC) Task Force on Assessment of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Cardiovascular Procedures and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology updated guidelines for cardiac radionuclide imaging in 2003.
Ultrasound and radionuclide imaging are commonly used in the diagnosis of testicular torsion.
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