What is Nuclear Medicine?

Nuclear Medicine allows for faster and safer diagnostic accuracy.  Its imaging is unique because it provides information to physicians about both structure and function.  It is a way to gather medical information that would otherwise be unavailable, require surgery, or necessitate more expensive diagnostic tests. 

Nuclear medicine imaging procedures can often identify abnormalities very early in the progress of a disease.  It provides a wide range of procedures such as:

Bone Scans

Nuclear Stress

Tests Liver Scans

Gallbladder Studies

Renal Scans

Thyroid Studies   

Stress test( for the heart)

and many more  

Very small amounts of radioactive materials are used in nuclear medicine to diagnose and treat disease.  The amount of radiation in a typical nuclear imaging procedure is comparable to that received during a diagnostic x-ray.