The patients described in the table below just checked in to the Alex Py Memorial Hospital & Regional Medical Center. Which are headed to the Department ofNuclear Medicine for a radioimaging procedure? Which are headed to the same place for a radiotherapy procedure?patientCharlie is here for a renal scan using technetium-99 m, because his primary care physician wants aspecialist to check on the blood flow through his kidneys.Amanda is being treated for a head and neck cancer. In order to shrink the tumor so surgery to remove itwill be more successful, her oncologist has recommended a course of 3 sessions of proton radiation.Amanda is here today for her first treatment.Jessica is here for an intravenous pyelogram (IVP), because her primary care physician is concerned abouther kidney function. During the IVP a contrast material that strongly absorbs X-rays will be injected intoJessica's veins, and a series of X-ray images will be taken with an ordinary X-ray camera as the dyeconcentrates in her kidneys. The blood vessels in the kidney will show up strongly on the images becauseof the dye.XOprocedureradioimagingradiotherapyneitherradioimagingradiotherapyneitherradioimagingradiotherapyneither

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