technetium

IPA: tɛkntiʌm

Examples of "technetium" in Sentences

This test uses very small amounts of a radioactive tracer called technetium to view the liver and spleen.
Chalk River and Petten together normally produce about 70 percent of the world's supply of an isotope called technetium 99, used in 85 percent of diagnostic imaging procedures.
Together, these two reactors produce about 60 per cent of the world's supply of an isotope called technetium 99, a radioactive substance used in 85 per cent of diagnostic imaging procedures.
Scientists from Argentina, Egypt, India and 15 other countries are descending upon the University of Missouri Research Reactor this week to coordinate research and spur commercial development of the substance, called technetium-99.
This test, also called a technetium sulfur colloid scan, or a liver-spleen scan, is seldom done, but I find it useful in some circumstances, especially if I think my patient may have a condition called focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) (see pages 223-25).