Nuclear Medical Technology

You place a patient in line with the beam from a gamma scintillation camera (to record radioactivity) and inject a drug containing a small amount of radioactive material into the patient’s heart. You make a rapid series of images that reveal the drug’s path through the heart, showing problems like narrowed arteries or damaged heart muscle. A physician viewing the images in sequence can actually watch the heart at work and decide on the best treatment for the patient. This medical miracle now takes place daily, thanks to nuclear medical technology.