Nuclear Medicine Diagnoses Organ Damage

UCLEAR medicine is used in hospitals in the United States to aid in the diagnosis of patients suffering from cardiovascular and other serious ailments. Similar to an X-ray scanners, nuclear medicine is the next generation of medical diagnostic equipment. Nuclear medicine uses radiation to target low-frequency gamma rays through a lens called a collimator. By adjusting the frequencies of nuclear medicine technologists collimators can explore different areas of the body to determine if the damage or internal bleeding can occur within a patient. Using nuclear medicine medical scanners are able to view the tissues and organs that make up the human body X-rays penetrate through to see the bones.

Nuclear medicine collimators act as the camera lens and can be adjusted so that technicians can examine a patient’s major organs such as liver, spleen, pancreas, brain, kidney or lung in detail. The collimator gamma rays refracted through a crystal that can be addressed by a particular area of the body to send a desired body image to a screen where you can see by the technician and recorded for analysis by doctors and surgeons.

In some cases radiotracers are used to deliver intravenous injections of a substance containing gamma rays, which are detected by the nuclear medicine collimators and project a clear image of the court for consideration of damage or disease. Gamma rays can also be used to detect internal bleeding in the organs to patients who are injured or may be used to locate a tumor or cancerous growth within the body.