• A radioactive tracer, radiotracer, or radioactive label is a synthetic derivative of a natural compound in which one or more atoms have been replaced...
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  • for both diagnosis and treatment. An imaging tracer made with radionuclides is called a radioactive tracer. A pharmaceutical drug made with radionuclides...
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    also one of the most commonly used gamma-emitting radioactive industrial tracer. Radioactive tracer isotopes are injected with hydraulic fracturing fluid...
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  • tissues Isotopic tracer, a substance with an isotope that has been enriched to a greater level than that found in nature Radioactive tracer, a substance containing...
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    pharmaceutical drugs that are radioactive). Radiopharmaceuticals are used in the field of nuclear medicine as radioactive tracers in medical imaging and in...
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  • by injecting a radioactive tracer into a peripheral vein usually in arms and then following the path of tracer by camera as the tracer moves to lungs...
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  • does not vary due to radioactive decay). Stable isotope labeling involves the use of non-radioactive isotopes that can act as tracers used to model several...
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    Radioactive sources are used for logging formation parameters. Radioactive tracers, along with the other substances in hydraulic-fracturing fluid, are...
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    This isotope has also found use in nuclear weapons research and as a radioactive tracer in hydrological research. 198Au was possibly observed for the first...
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    laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals...
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