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In order to obtain spatial information about the gamma-ray emissions from an imaging subject (e.g. a person's heart muscle cells which have absorbed an intravenous injected radioactive, usually thallium-201 or technetium-99m, medicinal imaging agent) a method of correlating the detected photons with their point of origin is required.
The power of prognosis from a myocardial perfusion scan is excellent and has been well tested, and this is "perhaps the area of nuclear cardiology where the evidence is most strong". [ 13 ] [ 16 ] Many radionuclides used for myocardial perfusion imaging, including rubidium-82 , technetium-99m and thallium-201 have similar typical effective ...
Scanning is time-consuming, and it is essential that there is no patient movement during the scan time. Movement can cause significant degradation of the reconstructed images, although movement compensation reconstruction techniques can help with this. A highly uneven distribution of radiopharmaceutical also has the potential to cause artifacts.
Scintigraphy (from Latin scintilla, "spark"), also known as a gamma scan, is a diagnostic test in nuclear medicine, where radioisotopes attached to drugs that travel to a specific organ or tissue (radiopharmaceuticals) are taken internally and the emitted gamma radiation is captured by gamma cameras, which are external detectors that form two-dimensional images [1] in a process similar to the ...
Thallium-202 (half-life 12.23 days) can be made in a cyclotron [4] while thallium-204 (half-life 3.78 years) is made by the neutron activation of stable thallium in a nuclear reactor. [ 5 ] In the fully ionized state, the isotope 205 Tl 81+ becomes beta-radioactive, undergoing bound-state β − decay to 205 Pb 81+ with a half-life of 291 +33
Sodium iodide (NaI) containing a small amount of thallium is used as a scintillator for the detection of gamma waves and zinc sulfide (ZnS) is widely used as a detector of alpha particles. Zinc sulfide is the material Rutherford used to perform his scattering experiment. Lithium iodide (LiI) is used in neutron detectors.
The thallium was slipped into bottles of Coca-Cola at the Carr and Trepal homes. [27] Thallium was the poison of choice for Saddam Hussein to use on dissidents, which even allowed for them to emigrate before dying. [28] In 1995, Zhu Ling was the victim of an unsolved attempted thallium poisoning in Beijing, China.
Thallium(I) superoxide or thallium dioxide TlO 2; Tl 4 O 3 This page was last edited on 27 February 2021, at 21:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...