A cinematic-science framework for teaching nuclear medicine — built on visual cognition, physics-grounded metaphor, and narrative sequencing that mirrors how the field actually works.
Trainees memorise half-lives. Clinicians inherit black boxes. Patients hear "nuclear" and brace themselves. The field arrives as a pile of disconnected facts to survive rather than a system to understand.
Isolated facts don't build clinicians. Connected understanding does.
Payload teaches it cinematically instead. Iron Man's cyclotron. Radionuclides as an arsenal. Theranostics as a recon-and-strike mission. The metaphors are physics-grounded and load-bearing — and they make a hard subject genuinely fun to learn.
Built first for students and residents. Read by clinicians, physicists, and anyone who wants the mechanism rather than the summary.
Abstract #261085 — SNMMI Annual Meeting 2026, Los Angeles.