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What is nuclear medicine? Nuclear medicine may be a specialized area of radiology that uses very small amounts of radioactive materials, or radiopharmaceuticals, to look at organ function and structure. medicine imaging may be a combination of the many different disciplines. These include chemistry, physics, mathematics, technology, and medicine. This branch of radiology is usually wont to help diagnose and treat abnormalities very early within the progression of a disease, like thyroid cancer. Because X-rays undergo soft tissue, like intestines, muscles, and blood vessels, these tissues are difficult to see on a typical X-ray, unless a contrast agent is employed. this enables the tissue to be seen more clearly. Nuclear imaging enables visualization of organ and tissue structure also as function. The extent to which a radiopharmaceutical is absorbed, or "taken up," by a specific organ or tissue may indicate the extent of the function of the organ or tissue being stud...