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The radioisotopes used for diagnosis in nuclear medicine


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have short half-lives

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travel rapidly through tissue

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are usually gamma emitters

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all of these

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Solution

A radioisotope used for diagnosis must emit gamma rays of sufficient energy to escape from the body and it must have a half-life short enough for it to decay away soon after imaging is completed.

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