As a Nuclear Medicine Technologist you would prepare, administer, and measure radioactive isotopes in therapeutic, diagnostic, and tracer studies using a variety of radioisotope equipment, prepare stock solutions of radioactive materials and calculate doses to be administered by radiologists, subject patients to radiation, and execute blood volume, red cell survival, and fat absorption studies following standard laboratory techniques. On the job you will administer radiopharmaceuticals or radiation intravenously to detect or treat diseases, using radioisotope equipment, under direction of a physician, detect and map radiopharmaceuticals in patients' bodies, using a camera to produce photographic or computer images, and process cardiac function studies, using a computer.
