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Nuclear medicine
Nuclear medicine is a diagnostic service that uses radiopharmaceuticals to study organ function and blood flow. Radiopharmaceuticals are chemicals that are tagged with a radioactive tracer. These chemicals have special properties that cause them to be attracted to specific sites or organs in the body. Depending on the examination, the radioactive tracer is either injected into the bloodstream, ingested or inhaled by the patient. A sophisticated detector, called a gamma camera, is linked to a computer and is used to detect the distribution of the radioactive tracer in the patient.