Radioactive Technetium 99 from Bone Scan

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Uploaded by on Oct 12, 2010

Short demonstration of radioactivity in the body after an intravenous injection of Technetium 99 for a bone scan. The test was done with a homebrew Geiger counter.

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  • Hi frugola92, I have no problems with thyroid. The test was done for finding bone metastases.

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  • The half-life of Tc99m is 6 hours, so 1 day later (= 4 half-life periods of Tc99m), should show max a 1/16 of the original value, etc.

    Thus, the initial activity (dose) was quite high, but rapidly decreased to immeasurable values...

    So the activity (dose), will be after:

    00 h = 1 (100%)

    24 h = 0.063 (~6%)

    48 h = 0.0039 (~0.4%)

    72 h = 0.00025 (~0.03%)

    96 h = 0.000016 (~0.002%)

    etc.

    BTW: the true dose is reduced even faster — because the Tc99(m) is removed from the body in a urine

  • @bradaboots

    teslamaster died because of cancer on new year morning 2011

  • This is a great little video. We are now giving patients the Sodium Fluoride (Naf) injections & scanning them in the PET scanner in place of Technetium. The Naf is only takes 90 minutes from injection to end of study. Much higher sensitivity & specificity for numerous studies including bony mets evaluation. It's done on a PET camera which replaces this 1970's Tcm99 study. Please research this, it's beneficial.

  • hi tesla do you have the problem whith thyroid ? in the past i have tast the radioactive iodine for my health problems.

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