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What are the uses of radioactive isotopes in the field of medicine?
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∙ 11y ago
The elements that are radioactive in their most common form are radon, technetium, potassium, and uranium. The most obvious use for radon is the automobile industry. Potassium has both medical and agribusiness uses. Uranium is commonly used as a basic fuel for nuclear reactors. Technetium is used in nuclear medicine and industries
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 10y agoMedical uses of radioactive isotopes include:
- Iodine-131 is used as tracer for diagnosing thyroid problems.
- Iodine-123 is used to image the brain.
- Cobalt-60 is commonly used to irradiate cancer cells in the hope of killing or shrinking tumors.
- Sodium-24 is used to trace the flow of blood and detect possible constrictions or obstructions in the circulatory system.
- Carbon-14 is used to trace the path of carbon in photosynthesis.
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specific treatments (iodine for hyperthyroidism)
general tissue destruction (inserts for cancer).
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∙ 7y agoRadioactive isotopes are used for treatments and diagnostic.
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What type of medicine use isotopes?
Some imaging uses radioactive isotopes to see various parts of the body.
What can radioactive isotopes be use for?
Radioactive isotopes have many uses:- sources of energy- tracers- treatment of cancers- sources of radiation- components of instruments- nuclear fuels- nuclear bombsand many others
What are three uses of isotopes?
Carbon-14 is used to determine the age of fossils. Radiation therapy for cancer comes from isotopes that emit gamma rays. Thyroid tissue that may be cancerous and has left the throat region can be located in the body with radioactive iodine.
What is special about radioactive isotopes?
Radioactive isotopes are a subset of isotopes. If we look at all isotopes, some of them are radioactive. That means that they have unstable nuclei, and they will decay spontaneously sooner or later.
Elements in radioisotopes and their uses?
Presumably you mean radio-isotopes? These are produced usually in small reactors built for the purpose and possibly for other experimental purposes. Short lived isotopes are the most useful for medical tracer purposes as the activity soon dies away. Longer lived and higher energy ones are useful for radioactive treatment of tumors and other conditions. This question is not really relevant to Nuclear Energy and I will transfer it to Medical questions.
What type of medicine use isotopes?
Some imaging uses radioactive isotopes to see various parts of the body.
What are 2 uses of radioactive isotopes?
Carbon dating and tracking.
A list with explanation of at least 3 medical medical uses of radioactive materials?
The explanation is the effect of ionizing radiation on tissues and materials.Three uses are:- sterilizing of instruments and parapharmaceutic items- diagnostic with radioactive isotopes (scintigraphy)- treatment of cancers with radioactive isotopes
What are the uses of each 5 radioactive elements?
- sources of energy - sources of penetrant radiations - smoke detectors - uses in medicine - uses as radioactive tracers - uses in radioactive dating of rocks
What can radioactive isotopes be use for?
Radioactive isotopes have many uses:- sources of energy- tracers- treatment of cancers- sources of radiation- components of instruments- nuclear fuels- nuclear bombsand many others
How are isotopes produced and how do they work in nuclear medicine?
The radioactive isotopes used in medicine are mostly prepared in a couple of different ways. It is possible to extract a useful radionuclide form the spent fuel of a nuclear power plant; iodine-131 and molybdenum-99 are examples of isotopes prepared in this manner. Cyclotrons are used for other isotopes, an example being Fluoron-18, which is made by bombarding natural, stable, oxygen-18 with protons from a cyclotron. The radioactive atoms are often bound in molecules designed for particular jobs. Nuclear medicine uses the radioactive materials for diagnostic purposes, since they can image things x-rays cannot detect or with smaller amounts of damaging radiation. Other radioactive materials are designed to be used therapeutically, for example to destroy cancer cells selectively.
What are some examples of isotopes and their corresponding uses?
uranium -just an elemet uranium 235 -element but this is radioactive
What are three uses of isotopes?
Carbon-14 is used to determine the age of fossils. Radiation therapy for cancer comes from isotopes that emit gamma rays. Thyroid tissue that may be cancerous and has left the throat region can be located in the body with radioactive iodine.
What are the common uses for Technetium?
Radioactive tracing in medicine, Nuclear medicine, Corrosion inhibitor, rust preventative, and super conductor.
Four uses of radioactive isotopes are?
- energy source - radiation source - tracer - fuel for nuclear reactors - explosive for nuclear bombs
Nuclear medicine uses these to image organs for diagnosis and treatment?
radioactive material called a tracer
What are the uses of isotopes in every field?
When you mix an isotope substance into the fields, the plants that grow in them will become genetically mutated and grow in many different and bizzare ways. Growing plants in intentionally radioactive soil is unfortunately most likely illegal.
