Examples of radiopharmaceutical in the following topics:
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- These radiopharmaceuticals, once administered to the patient, can localize to specific organs or cellular receptors.
- This property of radiopharmaceuticals allows nuclear medicine the ability to image the extent of a disease process in the body.
- In nuclear medical imaging, radiopharmaceuticals are taken internally, either intravenously or orally.
- After this, external detectors capture and form images from the radiation that is emitted by the radiopharmaceuticals.
- The radiopharmaceuticals used in nuclear medicine therapy emit ionizing radiation that travels only a short distance.
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- The nuclear medicine scan technique is sensitive to areas of unusual bone re-building activity because the radiopharmaceutical is taken up by osteoblast cells that build bone.