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Nuclear Medicine Technician

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Operates cameras that detect and map a radioactive drug in a patient’s body to create diagnostic images. After explaining test procedures to a patient, prepares and administers a dose of radiopharmaceuticals. Positions the patient and starts a gamma scintillation camera, or scanner, which creates images of the distribution of a radiopharmaceutical as it emits signals from the patient’s body. The images are produced on a computer screen or on film for a Physician to interpret.

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