Nuclear medicine is a medical specialty that uses radioactive tracers radiopharmaceuticals to assess bodily functions and to diagnose and treat disease specially designed cameras allow doctors to track the path of these radioactive trace. Nuclear medicine science and safety by dr a c perkins this is the first edition published by john libbey company ltd 1995 8vo 247 cm x 172 cm x 15 cm printed paper covered boards 182 pages. Nuclear medicine and radiology are the whole of medical techniques that involve radiation or radioactivity to diagnose treat and prevent disease while radiology has been used for close to a century nuclear medicine began approximately 50 years ago. Add tags for nuclear medicine science and safety a source of reference concerning the nature and safety of nuclear medicine procedures intended for medical paramedical nursing and technical staff in nuclear medicine departments be the first. In nuclear medicine it is generally perceived that the radiation risk from routine nuclear medicine tests is very small but finite it is well accepted that the estimation of radiation risk is not an exact science and most estimations are based on complex the radiological safety officer or radiation protection advisor is a technically