Diagnostic role of nuclear medicine among the other modalities of medical imaging

Nuclear medicine, unlike radiology techniques, shows essentially morphology of organs and the anatomy of blood vessels, with a very high precision. Nuclear medicine enables information about the function of organs on the level of capillaries, cells or molecules. It is a detector of pathological changes preceding morphological changes that were not detected by radiological methods. finally, the majority of nuclear medicine methods do not require more than intravenous injection of tracer and cause minor disturbances compared to traditional techniques like angiography