The standardized uptake value (SUV) is a nuclear medicine term, used in positron emission tomography (PET) as well as in modern calibrated Single Photon Emission Tomography (SPECT) imaging for a (semi)quantitative analysis.[1] Its use is particularly common in the analysis of [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose ([18F]FDG) images of cancer patients.
As you know tums tablets are mainly made of calcium carbonate. To get calcium carbonate, mining or quarrying is required but pure calcium carbonate can be made from a pure quarried source such as marble, etc.
Active ingredient: Calcium carbonate: one tablet of tums has 1,000mg. Calcium carbonate, which is essentially chalk, a tasteless, odorless powder that occurs naturally in limestone, marble and coral.