Nuclear Radiation In Medicine
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- Created on: 06-04-18 11:55
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- Nuclear Radiation In Medicine
- Tracers (monitor organs)
- Trace flow of a substance through an organ.
- Gamma radiation emitted and detected outside body.
- Half-life is 8 days.
- Decays into a stable product.
- Half-life is 8 days.
- Gamma Cameras (medical imaging)
- Inject patient with gamma emitting isotopes.
- Short half-life so nuclei mostly decay after taking image.
- Solution absorbed by organ and detected by camera.
- Inject patient with gamma emitting isotopes.
- Gamma radiation (treat cancer)
- Narrow beam that destroys cancerous cells.
- Gamma radiation is more penetrating than alph and beta.
- Half-life 5 years.
- Radioactive implants (treat cancer)
- Destroy cancer cells and some tumors.
- Beta or gamma emitting isotopes.
- Short half-life.
- Tracers (monitor organs)
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