Nuclear Medicine
Radioactivity

Author: Gianpiero Pescarmona
Date: 18/08/2008

Description

Nuclear medicine is a branch of medicine and medical imaging that uses the nuclear properties of matter in diagnosis and therapy.

Comments
2008-09-17T13:54:27 - Marco Vescera

Radioiodine is used in nuclear medicine both diagnostically and therapeutically. Examples of its use in radiation therapy include the treatment of thyrotoxicosis and thyroid cancer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioiodine

Iodine 131 (thyroid cancer)

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