INTRODUCTION
DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE
REN-JI HOSPITAL
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Nuclear Medicine
Concept
Nuclear Medicine is the science which use
radioisotopes to diagnose or treatment of
disease.
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Characteristics of Nuclear Medicine
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Nuclear medicine imaging provides doctors with
information about both structure and function.
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It is a way to gather medical information that would
otherwise be unavailable, require surgery, or
necessitate more expensive diagnostic tests.
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Nuclear medicine imaging procedures often identify
abnormalities very early in the progress of a disease—
long before many medical problems are apparent with
other diagnostic tests.
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Nuclear Medicine in modern Clinical
Medicine and Research
Today, nuclear medicine offers procedures
that are essential in many medical
specialties, from pediatrics to cardiology to
psychiatry. New and innovative nuclear
medicine treatments that target and pinpoint
molecular levels within the body are
revolutionizing our understanding of and
approach to a range of diseases and
conditions.
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Classification of Nuclear Medicine.
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Nuclear Medicine imaging.
In vivo function test
Immunoassay
Radionuclide Therapy
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Nuclear Medicine imaging
Process whereby a radionuclide is
injected or measured (through tissue)
from an external source, and a display is
obtained from any one of several
rectilinear scanner or gamma camera
systems.
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Classified by imaging time
Static
Dynamic
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Classified by imaging part
Local
Whole body
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Classified by imaging method
Planar
Tomography
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Classified by lesion uptake
Positive imaging
Negative imaging
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Functional Study
Thyroid uptake test
Renogram
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Immunoassay
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It’s a technique to detect micro substances in body
fluid.
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This technique has been developed in 1959 by
Solomen Berson and Rosalyn Yalow in Bronx, New York.
For their contribution of this important analytical
technique to medical science, R. Yolow and Berson
shared the Nobel price in Medicine and physiology in
1977.
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Radionuclide Therapy
 Internal Irradiation
 Contact Irradiation
 Intracavitary Irradiation
 Interstitial Irradiation
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The History of Nuclear Medicine
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French Physicist discovered
radioactivity in 1896
Henri Becquerel
(1852-1908)
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German physicist who discovered Xrays in 1895
Wilhelm Röentgen
(1845-1923)
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French physicist who, along with his
wife Marie Sklodowska Curie, isolated
polonium and radium in 1898
Pierre Curie
(1859-1906)
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American physicist who won the 1939
Nobel Prize in physics for the invention
of the cyclotron
Ernest O. Lawrence
(1901-1958)
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American inventor of the scintillation
scanning camera in 1958.
Hal Anger
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Nuclear Medicine is the major
technique in molecular imaging
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