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Introduction,c evaluations of anatomical or physiological conditions of the body and to provide therapy with unsealed radioactive sources’ (Board of Trustees of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, 1983). These impinge on almost every branch of medical practice. It is this combination of breadth of clinical applicat

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Urinary tract,r Medicine also offers the most sensitive practical method of assessing global function. Processes which influence function can be assessed separately; these include renal blood flow, glomerular filtration and proximal tubular function or mass. In addition neuromuscular activity of the renal pelvis

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Brain,l abnormalities in capillary permeability have been almost entirely superseded by x-ray computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), both of which relate pathology more precisely to adjacent anatomical structures. Tracers which demonstrate the distribution of specific neuroreceptor

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Tumours and soft tissues,liest clinical uses of radio-isotopes, namely to identify metastatic thyroid cancer. At the time of the original observations, over 50 years ago, there were few other methods of localizing tumours. Chemotherapy of cancer was in its infancy and surgical excision and radiotherapy were the only treatme

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Paediatrics,ities are relatively more common, as are infection, trauma and their comsequences. Malignancy and the effects of degenerative disease are comparatively rare and when malignancy does occur the types found are substantially different from those in adults. Any investigation which can be performed in an

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