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  2. Isotopes in medicine - Wikipedia

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    Radioactive isotopes are used in medicine for both treatment and diagnostic scans. The most common isotope used in diagnostic scans is Technetium-99m, used in approximately 85% of all nuclear medicine diagnostic scans worldwide. It is used for diagnoses involving a large range of body parts and diseases such as cancers and neurological problems ...

  3. Nuclear medicine - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear medicine (nuclear radiology, nucleology), [1] [2] is a medical specialty involving the application of radioactive substances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Nuclear imaging is, in a sense, radiology done inside out , because it records radiation emitted from within the body rather than radiation that is transmitted through ...

  4. Radionuclide therapy - Wikipedia

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    At the Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU) work is being done on alpha-immunotherapy, this is an experimental method where antibodies bearing alpha isotopes are used. Bismuth-213 is one of the isotopes which has been used. This is made by the alpha decay of actinium-225. The generation of one short-lived isotope from longer lived isotope ...

  5. Radiation therapy - Wikipedia

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    A major use of systemic radioisotope therapy is in the treatment of bone metastasis from cancer. The radioisotopes travel selectively to areas of damaged bone, and spare normal undamaged bone. Isotopes commonly used in the treatment of bone metastasis are radium-223, [112] strontium-89 and samarium (153 Sm) lexidronam. [113]

  6. Technetium-99m - Wikipedia

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    Approximately 85% of diagnostic imaging procedures in nuclear medicine use this isotope as radioactive tracer. Klaus Schwochau's book Technetium lists 31 radiopharmaceuticals based on 99m Tc for imaging and functional studies of the brain, myocardium, thyroid, lungs, liver, gallbladder, kidneys, skeleton, blood, and tumors. [75]

  7. Radionuclide - Wikipedia

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    most commonly used medical radioisotope, used as a radioactive tracer Iodine-129: 53: 76: 15,700,000 y: β −: 194 Cosmogenic: longest lived fission product; groundwater tracer Iodine-131: 53: 78: 8 d: β −: 971 Fission product: most significant short-term health hazard from nuclear fission, used in nuclear medicine, industrial tracer Xenon ...

  8. Radiopharmaceutical - Wikipedia

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    A list of nuclear medicine radiopharmaceuticals follows. Some radioisotopes are used in ionic or inert form without attachment to a pharmaceutical; these are also included. There is a section for each radioisotope with a table of radiopharmaceuticals using that radioisotope.

  9. Radioligand - Wikipedia

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    Often called the father of nuclear medicine, Lawrence treated a leukemia patient with radiophosphorus, which was the first time a radioactive isotope has been used to treat human patients. [4] Another pioneer in the field, Sam Seidlin, in partnership with Saul Hertz, treated a case of thyroid cancer with radioactive iodine (I-131) 1946. [5]