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Often patients appreciate receiving written information about a nuclear medicine or radiation therapy procedure prescribed for them by their doctor. This part of the web-site has collected web pages from various health-related and industry organizations that provide information about nuclear medicine and radiation therapy procedures that use radioactive materials or sealed radioactive sources. For information on medical radiation procedures that use machine produced radiation such as x-ray (radiology), linear accelerators, ultrasound or MRI, go to “Medical Radiation.”

From the Medical Radiation site, you may obtain information about diagnostic procedures such as brain scans, lung scans, cardiac imaging or thyroid uptakes and therapeutic procedures such as brachytherapy, gamma knife and thyroid ablations. Some webpages provide detailed information about the scan, how the procedure helps in diagnosis and healing, cancer diseases/conditions and treatments, and qualifications of individuals who work in this field.

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Nuclear Medicine
Agency/Page Title	Web Address	Keyword
Radioisotopes in Medicine - Australasian Science Magazine	http://www.uic.com.au/nip26.htm	nuclear medicine, radiotherapy, diagnostic
Nuclear Energy Institute	http://www.nei.org/index.asp?catnum=2&catid=108	Nuclear Medicine-Diagnostics and Therapy
The Thyroid Society: National, not-for-profit organization	http://www.the-thyroidsociety.org/med_letter3.html	Role of nuclear medicine in thyroid disease
American Society of Radiologic Technologists	http://www.asrt.org/asrt.htm	Brain scan, Thyroid uptake, Lung scan, Cardiac imaging, Gallbladder imaging, Bone scans
International Radiosurgery Support Group	http://www.isrs.org/	Gamma Knife,Brain metastases, Linac stereotactic radiosurgery
Society of Nuclear Medicine	http://www.snm.org/nuclear/patient_info.html	Liver & Hepatobiliary, Cardiac Stress-Rest, Renal Imaging in Children, Bone, Ovarian Cancer/Colorectal/Prostate Cancer, Brain, Breast, Radioiodine Treatment
What is Nuclear Medicine?	http://www.cbvcp.com/nmrc/nucmed.html	Cancer, Radio-immunotherapy, clinical trails
Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy	http://www.ons.org	Patient information and education. Disease - specific information explaining various cancer treatments with radiation. Select “Condition Centers”, then “cancer”, and finally “specific type”.
Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy	http://www.mdanderson.org/care_centers/radiationonco/	FAQ, treatment by disease type, radiation therapy terms glossary, link to Dept. of Radiation Physics.
Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy	http://www.nucletron.com	Radiation therapy, cancer, HDR, brachytherapy
Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy	http://www.med.ufl.edu/radonc/AbRT_HDR.htm	Brachytherapy, HDR, cancer treatment. Intravascular radiation therapy (IVB).
Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy	http://www.varian.com	Linear accelerators, brachytherapy, cancer treatment. Intensity Modulated Therapy Radiotherapy (IMRT).
Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy	http://www.heartcenteronline.com/ The_Radionuclide_Imaging_Center.html	Patient Guides: PET Scan, Nuclear Stress Test, SPECT Scan, MUGA Scan, Radionuclide Imaging Overview

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