AT the beginning of this century, one of the facts most intriguing to chemists was the impossibility of concentrating some of the radioactive elements. Radium D, for example, a substance well ...

Trials have been taking place to see if radioactive medicine can be delivered to hospitals by drone. Coventry-based drone ...

The Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre at The University of Manchester has been awarded a license to produce its own radioactive tracers, enabling it to proceed with unique research into cancer, ...

UC Davis Health's first-of-its-kind total body scanner EXPLORER is being given yet another new assignment—assessing how ...

UC Davis Health's first-of-its-kind total body scanner EXPLORER is being given yet another new assignment — assessing how ...

Patients are injected with a radioactive tracer and after about an hour, the patient slowly moves through a ring-shaped detector, which detects radiation from the tracer. One scan takes about 20 ...

A bone scan looks for changes in your bones. Before the test you have a radioactive tracer injection into your bloodstream. You have this through a tube (cannula) into a vein in your hand. It takes 2 ...

“Our motivation was to visualize gold nanoparticles without labelling them with tracers,” explains Koshikawa ... “Additionally, we are developing new detectors to image radioactive drugs with higher ...

"We need to give patients a certain amount of a tracer [a small dose of a radioactive chemical] to enable us to get good, clear images from scans so that we can accurately diagnose their ...