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What is a characteristic of isotones?
What is a nuclear isomer?
What is the charge of an alpha ray?
Which type of radiation has the highest penetrating power?
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What is the composition of an alpha ray?
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What is a characteristic of isotopes?
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What determines the dose to a particular organ of the body in nuclear medicine?
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What is the formula to calculate the effective half-life (T½eff) of a radionuclide?
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What is the effective half-life of 131I in the thyroid if T½bio = 15 days and T½phy = 8 days?
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What is an isotope of an element?
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How many protons does carbon have in its nucleus?
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What is the biological half-life of an element?
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Why can radioisotopes of all elements be produced?
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Why are gamma-emitting radionuclides more useful for diagnosis than beta-emitting radionuclides?
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What is the primary use of beta-emitting radionuclides such as 3H and C14?
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Why is 32P used for diagnosis of tumors in the eye?
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What is the primary challenge in using gamma-emitting radionuclides of common organic elements in clinical medicine?
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What is the half-life (T½) of a radionuclide?
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What is the unit of radioactivity, and what is its definition?
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What is the assumption made by Planck about the energy of oscillating atoms?
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What happens to the peak of the radiation curve as the temperature of a blackbody radiator increases?
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What is the name of the law that describes the relationship between the temperature of a blackbody and the wavelength of the radiation?
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What is the condition required for Planck's law to be applicable?
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Study Notes
Nuclear Chemistry
- Isotopes: atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons
- Examples: 12C, 13C, 11C, 14C, 15C
- Stable isotopes: not radioactive, e.g. 12C, 13C
- Radioisotopes: radioactive, e.g. 11C, 14C, 15C
- Isotones: atoms of different elements with the same number of neutrons
- Isomeric state: atoms of the same element with the same number of protons, neutrons, and electrons, but different energy levels
- Radioactivity: natural elements that disintegrate to emit various rays
- Alpha (α) rays: positive charge, affected by magnetic and electric fields, stopped in a few centimeters of air
- Beta (β) rays: negative charge, affected by magnetic and electric fields, stopped in a few meters of air and a few millimeters of tissue
- Gamma (γ) rays: no charge, unaffected by magnetic and electric fields, high energy photon with high penetrating power
- Radiation doses in nuclear medicine: depend on physical characteristics of the radionuclide, particles emitted, energies, and length of time in the organ
- Effective half-life (T½eff): combination of physical half-life (T½phy) and biological half-life (T½bio)
Radionuclides in Medicine
- Most useful radionuclides emit gamma rays, which are very penetrating
- Beta particles are not very penetrating and are generally of little use for diagnosis
- Exceptions: 3H and C14 play important roles in medical research, and 32P is used for diagnosis of tumors in the eye
- Short-lived gamma-emitting radionuclides of common organic elements (C, N, O) are difficult to use in clinical medicine without an accelerator
Radioactive Decay
- Each radionuclide decays at a fixed rate, commonly indicated by the half-life (T½)
- Basic equation describing radioactive decay: A = Ao e–λ t
- Decay constant (λ) and half-life (T½) are related: T½ = 0.693 / λ
- Units of radioactivity: curie (Ci), where 1 Ci = 3.7*10^10 disintegrations per second
- Subunits: mCi, μCi, nCi, pci
- SI unit for radioactivity: Becquerel (Bq), where 1 Bq = 1 disintegration per second
- Subunits: KBq, MBq, GBq
Blackbody Radiation Laws
- Ideal blackbody: absorbs all incident radiation, and none is reflected or transmitted
- Energy output of a blackbody is a function of its temperature and is not spread uniformly across all wavelengths
- Stefan-Boltzmann law: total radiant heat output emitted from a surface is proportional to its absolute temperature to the fourth power (E = eσAT^4)
- Planck's law: relation for the spectral blackbody emissive power, assuming radiation originates from oscillating atoms
- Wein's displacement law: peak of the radiation curve shifts to shorter wavelengths as temperature rises, used to calculate temperatures of hot radiant objects like stars
- Observations from blackbody radiation graph:
- Curves shift to shorter wavelengths as temperature rises
- Greater proportion of radiation is emitted at shorter wavelengths at higher temperatures
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Learn about the differences between isotopes, isotones, and isomers, including their chemical and physical properties, nuclear states, and radioactivity.
