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Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Nuclear Reactors and its role in NUCLEAR MEDICINE. . . . Role of Nuclear Reactor in Nuclear Medicine 1. Production of Radioisotopes •Nuclear reactors are the main source of many medical isotopes. •Inside a reactor, neutrons bombard target materials, converting them into radioactive isotopes. •Example: •Uranium fission → produces Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) → which decays to Technetium-99m (Tc-99m). •Tc-99m is the workhorse isotope in nuclear medicine (used in ~80% of scans worldwide). 2. Isotopes Comm