Nuclear medicine

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Iodine 131

  • Used to treat hyperthyroidism in cats

  • attracted to the thyroid gland

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Nuclear scintigraphy

  • expense and high regulation of radionucleotides limits the amount that this technique is used

  • certain isotopes are more attracted to certain types of tissue

Certain

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Technetium

  • used with horses

  • primarily attracted to bone

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how does it work

  • patient is injected with or ingests a radionuclide and the nuclear medicine camera detects the radioactivity emissions from the patient

  • demonstrates function (pathologic funtion of how things work) not anatomy

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what images do you get

  • A series of dots plotted on a computer

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Safety considerations

  • radioactivity of material used and emissions by patient and their waste