Although a number of procedures using radioactive iodine and measuring different ... human thyroid gland as diagnostic test in clinical medicine. J. Clin. Endocrinol. 10:1425–1464, 1950.

For at least 1 month prior to I-131 therapy you must not have had iodine containing preparations (certain vitamin tablets, cough mixtures and kelp tablets) or iodinated contrast agents used for X-ray ...

When handling beta emitters, such as strontium-89, yttrium -90, or rhenium-188, radiation safety is primarily the safe handling of excreta and body fluids. However, when radionuclides also emit gamma ...

It has done neither, and as time has passed, the fact has become increasingly clear that the greater value of nuclear medicine is in ... is to find a radioactive substance with a short half ...

IN view of an early thyroid uptake (two hours) relatively higher than that of twenty-four hours in some of our patients treated with radioactive iodine we decided to use the perchlorate test ...

On raiding it, they found 13 playing cards laced with iodine-125, a substance used in medicine that has a half-life of 60 days. That means it stays radioactive for longer than most other types of ...

Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland updated guidance telling citizens to ensure they have enough long-life food, water and medicine ... Radioactive iodine can be released into the air in a nuclear ...