Nuclear medicine is a specialized area of radiology that uses very small amounts of radioactive materials (given either orally or intravenously) to examine an organ’s structure and metabolic function, and is used to:
This creates images of the body using radioactive substances, detecting tumors and determining the quality of blood flow through the heart and lungs.
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