A radionuclide (radioactive nuclide, radioisotope or radioactive isotope) is a nuclide that has excess numbers of either neutrons or protons, giving it...

nuclear medicine. 2D: Scintigraphy ("scint") is the use of internal radionuclides to create two-dimensional images. A nuclear medicine whole body bone...

Radionuclide angiography is an area of nuclear medicine which specialises in imaging to show the functionality of the right and left ventricles of the...

An extinct radionuclide is a radionuclide that was formed by nucleosynthesis before the formation of the Solar System, about 4.6 billion years ago, but...

A radionuclide generator is a device which provides a local supply of a short-lived radioactive substance from the decay of a longer-lived parent radionuclide...

leak radionuclide cisternography also known as radioisotope cisternography is used. The third type of cisternography is MR cisternography. Radionuclide cisternography...

wastewater or brine. These naturally occurring radionuclides are of more concern than some man-made radionuclides used in fracture monitoring because of their...

Radionuclide therapy (RNT, also known as unsealed source radiotherapy or molecular radiotherapy) uses radioactive substances called radiopharmaceuticals...

Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) is a type of radionuclide therapy, using a radiopharmaceutical that targets peptide receptors to deliver...

processes. They are the stable nuclides plus the long-lived fraction of radionuclides surviving in the primordial solar nebula through planet accretion until...

Stable nuclides are nuclides that are not radioactive and so (unlike radionuclides) do not spontaneously undergo radioactive decay. When such nuclides...

than the age of the universe. The decaying nucleus is called the parent radionuclide (or parent radioisotope), and the process produces at least one daughter...

required. The technique needs delivery of a gamma-emitting radioisotope (a radionuclide) into the patient, normally through injection into the bloodstream. On...

pertechnetate. Initially it provides a radionuclide angiogram, followed by a static image after the radionuclide has perfused the tissue. In the healthy...

of radioactive transformations per second that occur in a particular radionuclide. The unit of activity is the becquerel (symbol Bq), which is defined...

only if the half-life of the daughter radionuclide B is much shorter than the half-life of the parent radionuclide A. In such a case, the decay rate of...

radioisotope, which in its general sense refers to any radioactive isotope (radionuclide), has historically been used to refer to all radiopharmaceuticals, and...

Bioremediation of radioactive waste or bioremediation of radionuclides is an application of bioremediation based on the use of biological agents bacteria...

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A synthetic radioisotope is a radionuclide that is not found in nature: no natural process or mechanism exists which produces it, or it is so unstable...

A radionuclide identification device (RID or RIID) is a small, lightweight, portable gamma-ray spectrometer used for the detection and identification of...

Whereas 1 Hz is one cycle (or periodic event) per second, 1 Bq is one radionuclide event per second on average. Even though frequency, angular velocity...

blood pumped. Cardiac ventriculography can be performed with a radionuclide in radionuclide ventriculography or with an iodine-based contrast in cardiac...

also the primordial radionuclide 87Rb) and 82 (six: 138Ba, 139La, 140Ce, 141Pr, 142Nd, 144Sm – noting also the primordial radionuclide 136Xe). Neutron numbers...

second in one gram of atoms of a particular radionuclide is known as the specific activity of that radionuclide. The activity of a sample decreases with...

release of radioactive gases, liquids or particles. For example, if a radionuclide used in nuclear medicine is spilled (accidentally or, as in the case...

106 years. The most common of these dating techniques is cosmogenic radionuclide dating. Earth is constantly bombarded with primary cosmic rays, high...

employees to particles containing increased levels of alpha emitting radionuclides that could pose health risks if inhaled or ingested. NORM is found in...

Federal and state nuclear regulatory agencies keep records of the radionuclides used. As of 2003 the isotopes Antimony-124, argon-41, cobalt-60, iodine-131...

Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) is a type of radioisotope therapy (RIT) in which a peptide or hormone conjugated to a radionuclide or radioligand...