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In medicine, what is the importance of isotopes?

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Radioisotopes in medicine, nuclear medicine, the use of radioisotopes for diagnostics, radiation therapy, radiopharmaceuticals and other beneficial medical uses of nuclear technology. Tens of millions of nuclear medicine procedures are performed each year, and demand for radioisotopes is increasing rapidly. read more

There are 90 naturally occurring elements with roughly 250 stable isotopes, and over 3200 unstable or radioactive isotopes. Different isotopes of the same element often have completely different properties -- making some of them invaluable for mankind, and others worthless [for the time being]. read more

Isotopes are also important in forensics because the ratio of isotopes in a given sample of material can identify its origin. If two samples of lead contain the same mix of isotopes, for instance, it is likely that the samples came from the same source. read more

Isotopes are important. Isotopes are being used to spike into the blood or even localised muscles or hormones etc to determine the pathways or reactions patterns they follow. Since normal elelemnts are quite common they can disturb the experiments and resulting inaccurate diagnostics. read more

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