Saeed Akhtar, Afzal Nadeem, Javaid Irfan Ullah.
Nuclear medicine & its applications.
Professional Med J Jan ;9(2):88-95.

Nuclear Medicine is involved in diagnosis of many clinical problems. Similarly therapeutic role involves treatment of diseases in many treatment of thyroid diseases like Grave`s disease, toxic hot nodule toxic multinodular goiter (MNG) and ablation of differentiated carcinoma of thyroid with radioactive iodine organs (131I) similarly 32P is used for bone pain palliation in metastasis. Medical students have minimum exposure to Nuclear Medicine at undergraduate and even at postgraduate level. This review would briefly introduce the subject and would also be helpful for FCPS-II students. Abbreviations: 99m Tc (Technetium = isotope used for diagnostic purpose), 201-T1 (Thallium = isotope used mainly for cardiac scan), mrem/hr (unit of radiation exposure), F (Flourine = isotope used in (PET) Positron Emission Tomography studies), SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography), PET (Positron Emission Tomography), FDG (Fluorodeoxyglucose), MIBI (6-Methoxy isobutylisonitrile), RIA (Radioimmuoassay), IRMA (Immuno radiometericassay), RIS (Radioimmuno scintigraphy).

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