Know Ferris has the only university-based program in Michigan. Job placement is 100 percent. Graduates are recruited nationally. Nuclear medicine technologists administer these radiopharma-ceuticals to patients, then monitor the characteristics and functions of tissues or organs in which they localize.
Abnormal areas show higher or lower concentrations of radioactivity than normal.
Nuclear medicine technologists operate gamma scintillation cameras that detect and amp the radioactive drug in the patient's body to create an image. Radiologic technologists also operate diagnostic imaging equipment, but their equipment creates an image by projecting an x-ray through the patient. Nuclear medicine technologists explain test procedures to patients. They prepare a dosage of the radiopharmaceutical and administer it by injection or other means. Technologists then produce the images for a physician to interpret.