A nuclear medicine physician evaluates molecular, metabolic, physiologic and pathologic conditions of the body
useing the tracer principle, most often with radiopharmaceuticals. A wide variety of diseases can be evaluated
using nuclear medicine. The nuclear medicine physicians use combine anatomic imaging
with molecular imaging (e.g., PET/CT). The most common diagnostic applications
of nuclear medicine include the early detection of coronary artery disease,
cancer diagnosis and staging, and the evaluation of the effect of cancer
treatment.
Statistics show a median salary for a typical Nuclear Medicine Physician in the United States of
$266.000.
Latest Internet advertised nuclear medicine physician jobs have an average salary of
$241,000 /year.
