Earn your Bachelors of Science in Nursing (BSN) while you workâno matter where you live. All eight of the Indiana University School of Nursing campuses across the state of Indiana joined to create the RN to BSN Degree Completion Option. This means that nursing courses are distance accessible, using Web-based and video technologies rather than requiring you to come to campus.
Radioactive materials used in medicine: radionuclides and radioactive isotopes. A radionuclide is any type of radioactive material, including elements and the isotopes of elements. An isotope of an element is a particular atomic version of it. Isotopes are atoms of the same element with different atomic structures.
Radioactive isotopes have a variety of applications. Generally, however, they are useful either because we can detect their radioactivity or we can use the energy they release. Radioactive isotopes are effective tracers because their radioactivity is easy to detect.A tracerA substance that can be used to follow the pathway of that substance through some structure. is a substance that can be used to follow the pathway of that substance through some structure.Recall that tritium, H, is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen.). Tracers can also be used to follow the steps of a complex chemical reaction. After incorporating radioactive atoms into reactant molecules, scientists can track where the atoms go by following their radioactivity.