millicurie
Small decay unit
A millicurie is one-thousandth of a curie, a unit measuring radioactivity.
The curie, named for Marie Curie, quantifies the rate of radioactive decay.
Millicuries appear in medical and laboratory contexts where smaller quantities of radioactive material are involved: The patient received a dose of 15 millicuries of iodine-131.
Gradual organic breakdown
- half-lifePeriod for fifty-percent reduction
- alphaFirst Greek letter
- betaGreek alphabet's second letter
- gammaGreek alphabet's third
emission · disintegration · radiation · exposure · contamination · shielding · handling · storage
Metastable medical radioisotope
- iodine-131Radioactive halogen isotope
- cobalt-60Radioactive isotope for therapy
- cesium-137Radioactive fission byproduct
- strontium-90Radioactive isotope from fission
Medicinal radioactive substance
- tracerPath-marking projectile
- diagnosticTest to identify problems
- imagingProducing visual representations
- PETNuclear medicine imaging
SPECT · oncology · therapy · brachytherapy · radiolabeled · injection · uptake · biodistribution
Breakings into smaller parts
- activityEngagement in doing
- calibrationAdjusting for measurement accuracy
- assayCompositional evaluation procedure
- countingDetermining quantity sequentially
decay
Gradual organic breakdown
- half-lifePeriod for fifty-percent reduction
- alphaFirst Greek letter
- betaGreek alphabet's second letter
gamma · emission · disintegration · radiation · exposure · contamination · shielding · handling · storage · waste
technetium-99m
Metastable medical radioisotope
- iodine-131Radioactive halogen isotope
- cobalt-60Radioactive isotope for therapy
- cesium-137Radioactive fission byproduct
radiopharmaceutical
Medicinal radioactive substance
- tracerPath-marking projectile
- diagnosticTest to identify problems
- imagingProducing visual representations
PET · SPECT · oncology · therapy · brachytherapy · radiolabeled · injection · uptake · biodistribution
disintegrations
Breakings into smaller parts
- activityEngagement in doing
- calibrationAdjusting for measurement accuracy
- assayCompositional evaluation procedure