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medicine can also play a role not to be ignored in exploring
the treasure house of traditional Chinese medicine and phar-
macology and providing the modern scientific explanation to the
theory of traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacology.
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Therefore, it is safe to claim that nuclear medicine
represents the developing level of modern medical science
and has become an important mark of modernization of medical
science.
Applicational Value of Nuclear Medicine
Nuclear medicine can be employed for the diagnosis and
treatment of disease. Its high sensitivity, specificality
and efficiency in diagnosis, in particular, are usually not to
be replaceable by other means.
The clinical diagnosis of nuclear medicine can be divided
into internal diagnosis and external diagnosis. Isotopic dis-
play technology is the representative means of the nuclear
medicine applied in internal diagnosis; while RIA is the most
effective micro-analytic method of external diagnosis effected
by nuclear medicine. Both applications stand for the highest
achievement of the modern medical science.
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