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Radio-isotopes are a crucial component of the radiopharmaceuticals that are used. routinely in the clinics for the non-invasive diagnosis and treatment of various diseases. These radiopharmaceuticals are specific biological molecules tagged (or labelled) with. medical radioisotopes.
Autoradiography not only permits the definition of the radioisotopeâs localization in a biological object but also helps to find the quantity of the radioisotope, since the number of reduced silver grains in the emulsion is proportional to the number of particles reacting with the emulsion.