How to Use nuclear medicine in a Sentence

nuclear medicine

noun
  • But at Stanford's nuclear medicine department that day, a patient had missed his appointment.
    Sarah Varney, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2018
  • That is about 500 times the radiation dose the skin or tissue would normally receive in a nuclear medicine imaging procedure.
    Daniel Fass, STAT, 30 Dec. 2021
  • After an echocardiogram, a heart nuclear medicine scan, a chest x-ray, and other tests came back negative, doctors finally ordered a lung CT scan in early July.
    Robert Langreth, Bloomberg.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The two became pioneers of nuclear medicine, discovering how to diagnose and shrink cancerous tumors with the use of radiation.
    Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Meanwhile, Iran spinning centrifuges allegedly for nuclear medicine while at the same time, threatening the extermination of both Israel and America.
    Fox News, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Earlier this month, Novartis took the surprising step of voluntarily suspending production of two therapies that use nuclear medicine to target and treat cancer cells, and also halted clinical trials for one of the treatments.
    Ed Silverman, STAT, 3 June 2022
  • That offers a unique opportunity for researchers, said Dr. Jean Jeudy, professor of diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine at the Maryland medical school.
    Meredith Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2022
  • At UC San Diego hospitals, the employee relations board ordered unions to make sure that at least five respiratory therapists, 18 pharmacists, 46 clinical lab scientists and one nuclear medicine technologist show up daily during the strike.
    Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 May 2018
  • Campos previously worked at Triton as faculty and program coordinator for the college’s nuclear medicine program.
    Anna Bybee-Schier, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • But while there are practical uses of nuclear science, both in creating nuclear weaponry and nuclear medicine, Loveland says, the vast majority of the work nowadays is focused purely on better understanding the mechanisms of nuclear reactions.
    Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Due to manufacturing issues, Novartis has voluntarily suspended production of two therapies that use nuclear medicine to target and treat cancer cells.
    Ed Silverman, STAT, 9 May 2022
  • Its headquarters was moved to London after GE bought Amersham plc, which makes radiopharmaceutical products used in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine procedures, in 2003.
    Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2020
  • His clinical interests include neuroradiology, including brain, spine, head and neck imaging, and nuclear medicine imaging.
    Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 22 Jan. 2018

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