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nuclear medicine
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- Nuclear medicine is one of the important medical aspects that employs the radiation and emission of the radioisotopes to extract functional and morphological information about the specific organs for diagnosing or treating their possible diseases. The heart, thyroid, kidney, bones, brain, liver, and many other organs can be easily imaged by different imaging techniques in nuclear medicine, and also disorders in their functionality can be easily revealed by imaging techniques in nuclear medicine. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Nuclear Medicine]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/nuclear_medicine
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