radioactive tracer
Britishnoun
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All the volunteers will have the current gold-standard tests for Alzheimer's which involve a specialised brain PET scan using a radioactive tracer, or a lumbar puncture to remove a sample of cerebrospinal fluid.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026
The day of the appointment, the medical staff injected a radioactive tracer into Gluck’s bloodstream, then instructed him to lie down on a machine similar to a CT scanner.
From Slate ● May 2, 2025
PET is an imaging technique that uses a radioactive tracer to measure metabolic processes in the body.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024
Because the equation doesn’t test kidney function directly, its developers compared its results with kidney filtration rates measured using a more definitive test, based on a radioactive tracer, that is too complex to perform routinely.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 22, 2021
The test uses a radioactive tracer that binds to a protein called tau that, in CTE, leaks out of neurons and shows up where it shouldn’t, Tanaka and Wells explain.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 7, 2014
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