Rio Grande Nuclear

Nuclear medicine is a specialty of medicine today. Nuclear medicine imaging agents or radiopharmaceuticals, which are formed by a conveyor drug and a radioisotope used. These radiopharmaceuticals are applied within the human body in various ways (the most used is the intravenous route). Once the radiopharmaceutical is inside the body, it is distributed by different bodies depending on the type of radiopharmaceutical used. Where the radioactivity is detected by a radiation detector device called a gamma camera and stored digitally. Then the information obtained images of the whole body or organ under study is processed. These images, unlike most obtained in radiology, functional and molecular imaging, ie, are displayed as operating organs and scanned or reveal alterations thereof tissues at the molecular level.