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Not so sure medicine is afraid to use the word "nuclear". Nuclear medicine a field that patients deal with regularly from getting bone density scans for osteop
by certmd 7y ago
Not so sure medicine is afraid to use the word "nuclear". Nuclear medicine a field that patients deal with regularly from getting bone density scans for osteoporosis, thyroid and cardiac imaging, etc. In the US at least the name of the department is plastered on signs in hospitals next to everything else. As for why "nuclear" was dropped from I don't know the exact reason.
- mehrdadn 7y ago>> Note that the medical industry chose MRI because it hides a word that is so taboo they don't even want to see it mentioned anywhere: "Nuclear" > Not so sure medicine is afraid to use the word "nuclear". MRI was originally called NMRI (nuclear magnetic resonance imaging), but "nuclear" was dropped to avoid negative associations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging
- badamp 7y agoProbably because while nuclear medicine and most of radiology uses actual ionizing radiation for almost everything... NMR is ironically one mode that doesn’t involve it at all. Per informed consent, patients ought to know that XRay and CT and nuclear studies involve radiation, it would be unethical to hide that. But MR shouldn’t have an unnecessary image problem.
- ambrop7 7y agoNitpick: modern bone density scans use X-rays, and don't typically fall under nuclear medicine.