• A radioactive tracer, radiotracer, or radioactive label is a synthetic derivative of a natural compound in which one or more atoms have been replaced...
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  • for both diagnosis and treatment. An imaging tracer made with radionuclides is called a radioactive tracer. A pharmaceutical drug made with radionuclides...
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    also one of the most commonly used gamma-emitting radioactive industrial tracer. Radioactive tracer isotopes are injected with hydraulic fracturing fluid...
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  • does not vary due to radioactive decay). Stable isotope labeling involves the use of non-radioactive isotopes that can act as a tracers used to model several...
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    pharmaceutical drugs that are radioactive). Radiopharmaceuticals are used in the field of nuclear medicine as radioactive tracers in medical imaging and in...
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  • by injecting a radioactive tracer into a peripheral vein usually in arms and then following the path of tracer by camera as the tracer moves to lungs...
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  • tissues Isotopic tracer, a substance with an isotope that has been enriched to a greater level than that found in nature Radioactive tracer, a substance containing...
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    would be inappropriate to proceed with injecting the patient with the radioactive tracer. When the benefit does justify the procedure, then the radiation exposure...
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    This isotope has also found use in nuclear weapons research and as a radioactive tracer in hydrological research. 198Au was possibly observed for the first...
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    laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals...
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  • piece of information that is difficult to acquire by other means. Tracers can be radioactive or chemical, gas or liquid and have been used extensively in the...
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    Radioactive sources are used for logging formation parameters. Radioactive tracers, along with the other substances in hydraulic-fracturing fluid, are...
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    self-illuminating key chains. It is used in a medical and scientific setting as a radioactive tracer. Tritium is also used as a nuclear fusion fuel, along with more abundant...
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    containing gamma-emitting tracer isotopes is used to trace and measure fractures.[citation needed] A 1995 study found that radioactive tracers were used in over...
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    industry in a similar manner for leak detection as a Radioactive tracer. Disposal of expired radioactive sources presents similar challenges to the disposal...
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  • chemical tracer which is attracted to or concentrated by the activity which is being studied. That chemical tracer incorporates a short lived radioactive isotope...
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    years, the half-life of tritium. Beta-plus (or positron) decay of a radioactive tracer isotope is the source of the positrons used in positron emission tomography...
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    current scans). The same tracer may also be used for the diagnosis of types of dementia. Less often, other radioactive tracers, usually but not always...
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    used medical radioisotope in the world. Technetium-99m is used as a radioactive tracer and can be detected in the body by medical equipment (gamma cameras)...
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    (0.39 mSv/year) and radon (variable). Carbon-14 can be used as a radioactive tracer in medicine. In the initial variant of the urea breath test, a diagnostic...
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    oxygen-15 (15O), a positron-emitting isotope. 15O-water is used as a radioactive tracer for measuring and quantifying blood flow using positron emission tomography...
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    gum, biocides, emulsion breakers, emulsifiers, 2-butoxyethanol, and radioactive tracer isotopes. Proppants have greater permeability than small mesh proppants...
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  • A tracer-gas leak testing method is a nondestructive testing method that detects gas leaks. A variety of methods with different sensitivities exist. Tracer-gas...
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    the health and function of the gallbladder and biliary system. A radioactive tracer is injected through any accessible vein and then allowed to circulate...
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    can be used in chemical and biological labeling experiments as a radioactive tracer. D-T nuclear fusion uses tritium as its main reactant, along with...
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    three-dimensional images of active brain regions. SPECT relies on an injection of radioactive tracer, or "SPECT agent," which is rapidly taken up by the brain but does...
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    cobalt-59. Cobalt-60 is a commercially important radioisotope, used as a radioactive tracer and for the production of high-energy gamma rays. Cobalt is also used...
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  • determined through the dilution principle (i.e. similar as the case for radioactive tracer methods). Although CO gas in large volumes is toxic to humans, the...
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    it can be used by nuclear medicine physicians as a radioactive tracer for SPECT where the radioactive isotope is iodine-123 or iodine-125. The main purpose...
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  • Artificial X-ray sources Radiopharmaceuticals in radiopharmacology Radioactive tracer Brachytherapy X-ray tube, a vacuum tube that produces X-rays when...
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