A family member is about to have a brain scan using technetium-99m, an excited isotope with 6.01-hour

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A family member is about to have a brain scan using technetium-99m, an excited isotope with 6.01-hour half-life. The hospital makes Tc-99m from the decay of molybdenum-99 (t1/2 = 2.7 days), then delivers it to the nuclear medicine department. You?re told that the Tc-99m will arrive 90 minutes after production, and that there must be 10 mg of it. The technician says she will produce 12 mg of Tc-99m. Is that sufficient?

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Essential University Physics

ISBN: 978-0321976420

3rd Edition Volume 2

Authors: Richard Wolfsonby

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