Neurology Medicine

Lets find out the extent of a tumor, detect people in the future suffer Alzheimer’s or other dementia, in addition to study epilepsy and other psychiatric disorders
Like other forms of energy, nuclear power for repairing and building, not only to destroy, but most of the population directly associated with cancer and nuclear plants.

However, a new discipline, nuclear medicine, has become an increasingly widespread and more accurate way to diagnose and treat diseases. At present this medical specialty is engaged in 90% of cases the diagnosis of diseases and 10% to treatment.

Through nuclear medicine can be explored and treat heart, kidney, intestine and other organs. 30% of the activity of a Nuclear Medicine Service is related to oncology, 20%, with cardiology, a 5%, neurology, and the rest to other medical specialties.

In Spain all the major public health centers have a Nuclear Medicine Department. Our country has 140 centers and, each year, 650,000 are made with conventional examinations and 60,000 star his technique, PET (Positron Emission Tomography).
Radiopharmaceuticals or “magic bullets”

Nuclear medicine tests are to administer to patients a product, a specific radiopharmaceutical, addressed to the body for investigation or treatment. This radiopharmaceutical is so called because it emits a small radiation collecting some devices, gamma cameras. The captured radiation is converted into an electrical signal and images on a computer. Thus, one can study the arrival of the drug to the organ under study, distribution, and then disposal.

Radiopharmaceuticals act as true “magic bullets” that are sent directly to a tumor to study or treat and destroy their cancer cells. This nuclear therapy is already a reality in a type of cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which is treated on an outpatient basis (no hospital admission) and with almost no side effects. Thanks to new radiopharmaceuticals have reduced bone metastases and the pain they cause.

The average life of these radiopharmaceuticals (also called radioisotopes) varies. They disappear within hours or at most a day, so that nuclear medicine techniques are considered low risk to patients who undergo them and for people who are close