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Vinony's link graph records 1,658 inbound references to nuclear medicine, and connects out to neutron temperature, nuclear fusion and electronvolt.
It sits within the topics Medical specialties, Medicinal radiochemistry and Nuclear medicine.
Vinony links it to 48 Wikipedia language editions.
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- D009683
- Ops 301 code
- 3-70 - 3-72 , 8-53
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Research
546,775 papersvia PubMed
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- academic discipline
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- radiology
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- Commons category
- Nuclear medicine
- topic's main category
- Category:Nuclear medicine
- OpenStreetMap tag
- healthcare:speciality=nuclear
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Encyclopedic overview
Nuclear medicine (nuclear radiology) is a medical specialty involving the application of radioactive substances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Nuclear imaging is, in a sense, radiology done inside out, because it records radiation emitted from within the body rather than radiation that is transmitted through the body from external sources like X-ray generators. In addition, nuclear medicine scans differ from radiology, as the emphasis is not on imaging anatomy, but on the function. For this reason, it is called a physiological imaging modality. Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) scans are the two most common imaging modalities in nuclear medicine.
A nuclear medicine imaging machine in a hospital in North Carolina
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “nuclear medicine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.