Power Patient characteristic of the isotope which can b used to monitor the blood flow through patient's heart?
can sb tell me the characteristic in term of state of matter(gas,liquid or solid),radiation emmitted(beta,alpha or gamma),half life(long or short period) and its penetrating power
(medium,high or low)which can b used to monitor the blood flow through a patient's heart.and its reason for its each charateristic.
The isotope used in hospitals in the UK is Technetium 99m. It is a pure gamma emmitter ( does not give out any alpha or beta) with a half life of just over 6 hours which on the grand scale of radioactive decay is quite short (not to give the patient a large radiation dose). The energy of the gamma ray emitted is 140 Kev, but the gamma radiation is injected into the patient's blood stream so I'm not sure what you mean about penetrating power. At 140 Kev half the gamma rays will be stopped by about 10 cm of tissue.
The technetium would be in liquid form and labelled to the patient's own red blood cells. Images would the be taken with a machine called a gamma camera. (you could try googling Gamma Camera or MUGA for more info).
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Does a doctor have the power to send an adult to a care center?
Can a doctor send an adult patient to some type of care facility if he believes the patient isn't taking sufficient care of himself?
well it is the duty of the doctor to cure his patient so if he does feel that his patient isnt taking care of himself enough, enough that it could cause a major problem then yeah. of course not just like that, he has to get a court order. i would go more into that but i dont know much about it.
