Description

Radioactive chemicals & isotopes and beta or gamma radiation can be used to assess the structure and function of various types of cells in several organs.

Scintiscans can be used to assess or study circulation either through a specific organ or part of the body. But there main use is in assessing the position and size of individual organs and areas within organs of high or low radio-active marker uptake, revealing information about disease within those sites.

Information about cancers, lumps, cysts & nodules and blood clots can be revealed in this way.

Liver, lungs, thyroid, brain, bone and blood vessels can be scanned using a gamma camera or other detector.