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Unlike the more abundant14 N,15 N has one-half the fractional nuclear spin, which provides the advantage of a narrower line width for NMR. ...
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MEDVAMC provides specialized diagnostic care, radiation therapy, surgery, and medical treatment including cardiovascular surgery, gastrointestinal endoscopy, nuclear medicine, ophthalmology, and treatment of spinal cord injury and diseases. ...
Who bears formal responsibility for the serious MRI accident at Sunderby Hospital in Luleå, Swedish Lapland? This complex question appears to lie at the heart of the investigation that's still going on, and the answer may well set a legal precedent, according to experts. The accident took place on 23 October, and it led to injuries to a specialist nurse, along with the mobile MRI scanner ...
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a frequently used diagnostic imaging modality that may be an alternative to other types of radiologic imaging (e.g., computerized tomography, nuclear medicine imaging). It can detect soft tissue characteristics (e.g., inflammation), and because magnetic resonance (MR) uses a magnetic field and radio waves to produce images, it ...
The first two Vogtle Units begun in 1971 took 18 years to build and were a decade over schedule at a final price of $9 billion — ten times the original budget. The Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology says, “The production of medi-cal isotopes is in crisis and is built on a house of cards; adequate production is dependent on 5 aging ...
This level of neutron flux is close to that which is needed to commercially produce radionuclides for nuclear medicine, and validates previous claims regarding the commercial viability of their fusion-powered device.With US Nuclear Corp. ...
The process, amazingly enough involves secretly shipping spent uranium rods from nuclear reactors in the United States to nuclear reactors in Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Czech Republic, and South Africa. Once there, private companies then rent irradiation time at the reactors, sending the resulting mix of isotopes back to processing plants such ...
A computational tool was developed with the aim of evaluating radiation exposure levels corresponding to patients and other exposed people, such as medical staff or chaperones, during typical nuclear medicine procedures. The calculation system is based on Monte Carlo subroutines adapted from the code PENELOPE and devoted to perform energy deposition according to ...
Bearing in mind the emerging challenges for medical practices in radiology and nuclear medicine, on the one hand, and the implicit limitations of the direct regulation, on the other hand, we will argue that the law can stimulate self-organisation within the healthcare environment and induce the operators on the floor to self-reflective performance, in order to ...
Despite extensive research over the last decades, there remain considerable uncertainties as to the risks of low doses of ionising radiation as encountered in nuclear medicine. The effective dose to a population is a very important factor in the estimation of risk. The main goal of this study is to determine the effective dose to members of the public from ...
In order to evaluate the cytogenetic effects of low doses of radiation by internal or external exposure to iodine-131, we analysed chromosomal aberrations (CA) in peripheral blood lymphocytes from 34 subjects working in the nuclear medicine departments in Iran. The studied groups consisted of 26 individuals (Group A) who were employed in these centres without any ...