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WITCHER [35]
3 years ago
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Some isotopes are_____ , which makes them suitable for medical imaging procedures.

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aalyn [17]3 years ago
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Answer:

<u>Isotopes such as fluorine-18, gallium-67, krypton-81m, rubidium-82, nitrogen-13, technetium-99m, indium-111, iodine-123.</u>

Explanation:

For diagnostics, medical imaging radiopharmaceuticals are used intravenously or orally. After which external detectors catch the images from the radiation that is emitted from these isotopes also used in MRI and CT scanners.

Iodine 123 is used for examining the whole body part. In developed countries about 26 % of the population use 2%/ year of these medications for the therapies, and these nuclear medicines were developed in the 1950s by physicians who emphasized there use of Iodine 131 for the treatment of thyroid disease.

These isotopes consist of molybdenum-99, which has half-life 66 hours,

Darina [25.2K]3 years ago
4 0
Some isotopes are radioactive, which makes them suitable for medical imaging procedures. Radioactive isotopes have found a wide range of use in medicine. For example, they are used as tracers for diagnostic as well as research on metabolic processes. They are also used in medical imaging procedures, these isotopes include fluorine-18, gallium-67 among many others.
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