Reimagining nuclear materials for the future of medicine

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https://www.ans.org/news/article-7955/reimagining-nuclear-materials-for-the-future-of-medicine/

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Nuclear medicine has come a long way since Henri Becquerel first observed the penetrating energy of radioactive materials in 1896. Today, technetium-99m alone is used in more than 40 million diagnostic procedures every year—from cardiovascular imaging and bone scans to cancer detection—making it the undisputed workhorse of nuclear medicine. That...

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