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What is the Hot Lab?

What is the Hot Lab?

When families and patients visit Radiology’s Nuclear Medicine, they pass by the Hot Lab. Is this lab some kind of tropical paradise? Nope. It’s where nuclear medical technologists prepare the radioactive medicines needed to preform the scan tests. Learn more by watching the video.

Contributions by Bessie Ganim (RT-Nuc Med) and Nicole Mormile (RT-Nuc Med).

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About the author: Glenn Miñano

Glenn Miñano is a media specialist in the Department of Radiology, providing graphic design, photography, printing, video services, and administration of the department’s online properties. His works have been published in several medical articles, such as the American Journal of Radiology and the American Institute of Ultrasound. He has been providing these services to the Radiology Department since 1996.

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The Radiology Department at Cincinnati Children's is a leader in pediatric diagnostic imaging, radiology research, and radiation dose reduction.

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