The patients described in the table below just checked in to the Alex Py Memorial Hospital & Regional Medical Center. Which are headed to the Department of Nuclear Medicine for a radioimaging procedure? Which are headed to the same place for a brachytherapy procedure? patient Melissa suffers from severe arthritis, and is scheduled for a routine bone scan with technetium-99 m, to check on the status of her disease, in particular whether it has caused additional damage to her hip and shoulder joints. Kira is being treated for advanced breast cancer that has spread to her liver. Today she is scheduled for radioembolization procedure, in which tiny beads containing radioactive yttrium-90 will be injected into the blood vessels in her liver that supply blood to the tumors. Frank has recently been diagnosed with a head and neck cancer. In order to understand exactly the extent of the disease, his oncologist has requested an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scan, in which Frank lies in a large magnet while radio waves are used to construct a detailed image of the muscles and other soft tissues in his neck. procedure brachytherapy O radioimaging neither O brachytherapy radioimaging neither brachytherapy O radioimaging neither
The patients described in the table below just checked in to the Alex Py Memorial Hospital & Regional Medical Center. Which are headed to the Department of Nuclear Medicine for a radioimaging procedure? Which are headed to the same place for a brachytherapy procedure? patient Melissa suffers from severe arthritis, and is scheduled for a routine bone scan with technetium-99 m, to check on the status of her disease, in particular whether it has caused additional damage to her hip and shoulder joints. Kira is being treated for advanced breast cancer that has spread to her liver. Today she is scheduled for radioembolization procedure, in which tiny beads containing radioactive yttrium-90 will be injected into the blood vessels in her liver that supply blood to the tumors. Frank has recently been diagnosed with a head and neck cancer. In order to understand exactly the extent of the disease, his oncologist has requested an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scan, in which Frank lies in a large magnet while radio waves are used to construct a detailed image of the muscles and other soft tissues in his neck. procedure brachytherapy O radioimaging neither O brachytherapy radioimaging neither brachytherapy O radioimaging neither
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