| Assisting in the diagnosis and future treatment of | | | | housed in the basement of the facility the technicians |
| many internal disorders are special nuclear medicine | | | | that collect and provide data from the scans are |
| imaging devices that capture detailed scans of a | | | | shielded from continuous exposure to the radiation |
| patient without using x-rays. Developed with a gamma | | | | waves in a sealed control booth. |
| camera that sees through the field of vision that | | | | With the ability to complete a full-body scan of a |
| humans use to reveal the organs and tissue under the | | | | patient in about two minutes, the nuclear medicine |
| surface of the of the skin, the gamma radiation allows | | | | imaging equipment has proven to be a substantial |
| doctors to see the extent of damage that has been | | | | resource for guiding surgeons and physicians in |
| done by a cancer cluster or an artery that is leaking | | | | knowing how to best care for the patients that they |
| blood. Without harming the individual the low level | | | | are responsible for. Where x-rays were once the only |
| nuclear scans provide the physicians with highly | | | | means of detecting a spot on the lung or viewing a |
| detailed images of the internal organs without the need | | | | cyst or growth in the intestine the more accurate |
| for a biopsy or exploratory surgery. | | | | depictions that come from nuclear medicine imaging |
| By using the different spectrums of light to see | | | | are helping to save lives and provide the best means |
| beyond what is tangible and visible real world, the | | | | of treatment for people that have been confronted |
| nuclear medicine imaging equipment is able to capture | | | | with a prognosis of cancer. For the medical community |
| pictures of a patient in a very short time and aid in the | | | | the use of the gamma camera equipment is making it |
| medical treatment of a serious disease. In many | | | | possible to help many people that are being treated for |
| hospitals and some specialty clinics there is a room | | | | all manner of internal disorders. |
| that is dedicated to the nuclear technology. Usually | | | | |