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US Shortage of Isotope Used in Bone and Heart Scans

» 20 August 2009 » In Nuclear medicine - bone scan, PET scan, Public Health » No Comments

Herbert Klein MD, a nuclear medicine specialist, writes:

As the following item indicates, there is a shortage of technetium-99m, the basic radioisotope for bone scans, as well as heart scans,
kidney scans, etc: Isotope Crisis Threatens Medical Care

So far, in the nuclear medicine department where I practice, there have been no problems, but there might be in the days to come.

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