Radiopharmaceuticals

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List of radiopharmaceuticals

  • Carbon 14 -  a radioactive isotope of carbon
  • Iodine-125 -  light radioactive isotope of iodine with a half-life of 60 days; used as a tracer in thyroid studies and as a treatment for hyperthyroidism
  • Iodine-131 -  heavy radioactive isotope of iodine with a half-life of 8 days; used in a sodium salt to diagnose thyroid disease and to treat goiter
  • Tritium -  a radioactive isotope of hydrogen; atoms of tritium have three times the mass of ordinary hydrogen atoms



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