Nuclear Medicine is the practice of medical imaging that uses small amounts of radioactive material (referred to as radiopharmaceuticals) during procedures to diagnose, determine the severity and to treat a variety of diseases by providing pictures of the inside of a body’s cellular level. These tests are useful in helping physicians diagnose and detect many different types of cancers, endocrine, gastrointestinal, heart disease, neurological and other maladies inside the body during their early stages.

Nuclear medicine scans are considered a noninvasive procedure and outside of intravenous injections, the tests themselves are relatively painless and usually conducted by Nuclear Medicine Technologists.