radiotracer
Americannoun
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Origin of radiotracer
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The radiotracer most commonly used, called FDG, helps measure the uptake of glucose.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2015
The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has persuaded Medicare to reimburse for C11-choline, a radiotracer that studies have shown is highly effective at detecting recurrent prostate cancer.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2015
A radiotracer that can help rule out Alzheimer’s disease exists, Gambhir says, but it costs $3,000 to $5,000 per scan.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2015
But not when our lives were tied to where the radiotracer chose to land.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2011
To perform a PET scan, doctors must first inject patients with a radiotracer, a drug engineered to accumulate in the area of the body being studied and to emit low-level radiation detectable by a scanner.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2010
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