About Nuclear Medicine Physician Speciality

Nuclear Medicine Physicians diagnose and treat diseases using radioactive materials and techniques. They may monitor radionuclide preparation, administration, and disposition. Some of the professional duties of a nuclear medicine physician include prescribing radionuclides and dosages to be administered to individual patients, checking and approving the quality of diagnostic images before patients are discharged, preparing comprehensive interpretive reports of findings, interpreting imaging data and confer with other medical specialists to formulate diagnoses, determining appropriate tests or protocols based on patients' needs or conditions, consulting with patients following radiation treatments to provide information and assess outcomes or to recommend further consultation or treatments as appropriate, etc.