Sentence examples for radionuclides from inspiring English sources

It is possible that the composition of the radionuclides are proving more dangerous to the Fukushima birds than they are to the birds near Chernobyl.

The first hazardous air pollutants regulated in the United States (outside the workplace environment) were arsenic, asbestos, benzene, beryllium, coke oven emissions, mercury, radionuclides (radioactive isotopes), and vinyl chloride.

These radionuclides all emit gamma rays, and a scintillation camera is used to detect gamma-ray emission.

With the addition of the neutrons, the stable isotopes produce new unstable radionuclides, which then decay, emitting particles with diagnostic energies that can be separated and measured individually.

Radionuclides emit various ionizing radiations (e.g., electrons, positrons, alpha particles, gamma rays, or even characteristic X rays), the precise types of which depend on the radionuclide in question.

Positron emission tomography uses positron radionuclides that can be incorporated into true metabolic substrates and consequently can be used to chart the course of selected metabolic pathways, such as myocardial glucose uptake and fatty-acid metabolism.

It has the disadvantage of a long half-life (six hours), however, and other radionuclides with shorter half-lives are also used.

It is also the source of around 90% of the discharge of technetium-99, a long-lived radionuclide that lingers in shellfish.This particular waste, discharges of which have risen in recent years, worries the Irish and Danish governments, which detect it washing up on their beaches.

Diagnosis is confirmed by radionuclide bone scans.

The radionuclide used in virtually all phases of radionuclide imaging is technetium-99.

Radionuclide imaging is used to evaluate the temporal progress of cardiac disease, hemodynamics, and the extent of myocardial damage during and after infarction and to detect pulmonary infarction following emboli.