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Technetium Dosage. Radioactive isotopes are often used for medical imaging. Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) is a particularly popular isotope since it has a short half-life and is easy to make. Also, Tc-99m can be chemically bonded to a number of different compounds and cell types for imaging different parts of the body. Tc-99m has a half-life of 6.02 hours. It decays into Tc-99 by emitting a gamma ray of energy 140 keV. For this problem, assume that Tc-99m is present in the...
Technetium (Tc) is a radioactive element widely used in modern medical imaging (radiology). Its existence was predicted in 1871 by D. Mendeleev, who noticed a gap between then known elements Molybdenum (42) and Ruthenium (44) in the periodic table he envisioned. Technetium used in radiology is a metastable isotope 99Tc that emits gamma photons (half-life T1/2 = 6 h). A solution containing trace amounts of 99Tc (the tracer) is administered to a patient intravenously, and after the isotope uniformly spreads...