Nuclear medicine
HSA 315, week 11 discussion
Week 11 | Discussion
- Summarize this course in your own words (take home) so that someone thinking about taking the course in the future would understand what it is all about.
- Discuss the salient manner in which you will leverage the lessons learned in this course in your current (or future) career in the ever growing and changing health care industry.
Answer previewNuclear medicine is the section of medicine that uses substances of radioactive nature to detect and treat through diagnosis different types of ailments. Nuclear medicine generally uses trackers that help to generate detective ganna rays existent in the body. These gamma rays are detected by devices specifically focused on creating images that focus on the organs affected by a specific disorder. The radioisotopes have become an essential part of the diagnosis procedure in nuclear medicine. After administering the radioactive to the patient, the activity of the targeted organ can be viewed using a tomography either through two or three dimensions…
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