A Taste of Nuclear Medicine
As drugs go, technetium-99m has a relatively low public profile. Neither technetium-99m — called Tc-99m for short — nor its parent isotope, molybdenum-99, enjoy wide name recognition. Yet for all its relative anonymity, Tc-99m generally is considered a diagnostic powerhouse. It’s used in medical scans to help evaluate heart disease and for myriad other tests, […]