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What is the most common type of nuclear imaging?

I am a 24 year old female. I want to know what is the most common type of nuclear imaging?

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What is the most common type of nuclear imaging? Nuclear Imaging involves almost every organ in the body. Total body bones imaging was the most common. Nuclear PET imaging is now more common in evaluating cancer patients. Nuclear Cardiac Imaging is also more widely performed. In fact Nuclear Cardiology has evolved into a subspecialty in the field of nuclear imaging. Millions of nuclear cardiac imaging studies are done every year in the USA and elsewhere.
The most common type of nuclear medicine study is the nuclear stress test imaging of the heart. The next two are PET/CT for the heart or cancer and bone scintigraphy or bone scan.