Nuclear Medicine Technologist Salary

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Japan's Ogasawara Islands, including Chichi-jima and Minami-jima pictured here, are among the latest sites inscribed on the World Heritage List of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The islands, some 1,000 kilometres south of Tokyo, contain hundreds of endangered and endemic species. They are joined by sites including Kenya's Great Rift Valley Lake System and Western Australia's remote Ningaloo coast following the UNESCO heritage commission meeting in Paris, which ended on 29 June. The meeting also heard that the listed sites of Indonesia's tropical rainforest of Sumatra and the Honduran Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve are threatened by human activity and are now on a danger list.

Awards

Wen Jiabao's medal The Royal Society in London, Britain's national academy of science, awarded its most overtly political medal to China's Premier Wen Jiabao on 27 June. Wen, who trained as a geologist, was visiting the United Kingdom to sign off on trade deals worth £1.4 billion (US$2.2 billion) between China and Britain when he was presented with the King Charles II Medal. The award is given to foreign heads of state or government who have made an "outstanding contribution to furthering scientific research in their country" and has been given only three times before: last year to Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel; in 2007 to India's former president, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam; and in 1998 to Emperor Akihito of Japan. See go.nature.com/acxyhp for more.

Kyoto prizewinners This year's ¥50-million (US$624,000) Kyoto prizes in science have been won by Rashid Sunyaev and John Cahn. Sunyaev, director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, won the basic-sciences prize for his work on cosmic microwave background radiation. Cahn, of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, was awarded the advanced-technology prize for his work on alloys.

Research

Open-access journal Three major life-sciences research funders have teamed up to launch an open-access journal. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust announced the launch of the currently unnamed title on 27 June. It will publish biomedical and life-sciences research and the first issue should appear in summer 2012, with an editor-in-chief currently being sought. See go.nature.com/p1h5vl for more.

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Nuclear medicine technologist aids people in diagnosis and help out in treating certain diseases. They direct the radio pharmaceuticals to the patients and record the working of drug in body. They have direct contact with patients and work under the supervision of a physician. They operate the cameras to detect the working of radioactive drugs within the body to generate diagnostic pictures. The images developed on the computer screen are forwarded to the physician for examining the severity of disease.

Nuclear medicine technologist should maintain records of the radioactive drugs used, disposed, equipment involved in diagnosis and its maintenance. They must be able to obtain the exact information from the patient needed for the diagnosis. Nuclear medicine technologist provides details about every organ structure and its functioning.

They get specialized in nuclear cardiology and positron emission technology. The job profile varies with the field. The person working in nuclear cardiology field exercises the patient until they reach certain stress level and then capture the images of their chest area and heart. And these images are used as part of diagnostic procedure. And the person specialized in positron emission technology use radio tracers to scan the body and these radio tracers are injected in to veins to capture the images.

The nuclear medicine technologist has prominent role to play in detecting the disorders in body. The following are the duties and responsibilities of the nuclear medicine technologist.

Duties of nuclear medicine technologist:

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