Medical Physics and Radioactivity

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This resource, developed by the Institute of Physics (IOP) and the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), contains a presentation and teachers' notes with worksheets. It illustrates the uses of radioactivity in medicine.

The presentation describes:

• different types of radioactivity

• detection and measurement

• the use of radioisotopes as tracers in a bone scan and to investigate lung and kidney function

• Positron Emission Tomography (PET scan)

• radiotherapy

URL: http://stem.org.uk/rx36e

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