Technetium

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The first artificially produced element and a radioactive fission product of URANIUM. Technetium has the atomic symbol Tc, and atomic number 43. All technetium isotopes are radioactive. Technetium 99m (m=metastable) which is the decay product of Molybdenum 99, has a half-life of about 6 hours and is used diagnostically as a radioactive imaging agent. Technetium 99 which is a decay product of technetium 99m, has a half-life of 210,000 years.

Descriptor ID	D013667
MeSH Number(s)	D01.268.271.870 D01.268.556.843 D01.268.956.875 D01.496.749.305.870 D01.552.544.843
Concept/Terms	Technetium Technetium Technetium 99m Technetium 99m 99m, Technetium

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Chemicals and Drugs [D]
Inorganic Chemicals [D01]
Elements [D01.268]
Elements, Radioactive [D01.268.271]
Technetium [D01.268.271.870]
Metals, Heavy [D01.268.556]
Technetium [D01.268.556.843]
Transition Elements [D01.268.956]
Technetium [D01.268.956.875]
Isotopes [D01.496]
Radioisotopes [D01.496.749]
Elements, Radioactive [D01.496.749.305]
Technetium [D01.496.749.305.870]
Metals [D01.552]
Metals, Heavy [D01.552.544]
Technetium [D01.552.544.843]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	3	0	3
1997	1	1	2
1999	2	0	2
2000	2	1	3
2001	0	2	2
2004	2	1	3
2005	0	2	2
2007	0	1	1
2008	1	0	1
2014	0	1	1
2015	0	1	1

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Bullock-Palmer R, Kontak A, Dickert NW, Shaw LJ, Dilsizian V, Holly TA, Shirani J, Dorbala S, Einstein AJ. Responsibility for follow-up of abnormal findings in myocardial perfusion imaging: A case-based ethics discussion. J Nucl Cardiol. 2015 Oct; 22(5):927-31.

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Lee HS, Ko BS, Ahn SH, Son BH, Lee JW, Kim HJ, Yu JH, Kim SB, Jung KH, Ahn JH, Cha JH, Kim HH, Lee HJ, Song IH, Gong G, Park SH, Lee JJ, Moon DH. Diagnostic performance of breast-specific gamma imaging in the assessment of residual tumor after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer patients. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2014 May; 145(1):91-100.

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Bajelidze G, Belthur MV, Littleton AG, Dabney KW, Miller F. Diagnostic evaluation using whole-body technetium bone scan in children with cerebral palsy and pain. J Pediatr Orthop. 2008 Jan-Feb; 28(1):112-7.

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Kuhn JA, Nochumson J. Operative probe scintimetry with indium and technetium for colorectal cancer. J Surg Oncol. 2007 Sep 15; 96(4):290-6.

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Wickstrom E, Tian X, Amirkhanov NV, Chakrabarti A, Aruva MR, Rao PS, Qin W, Zhu W, Sauter ER, Thakur ML. Radionuclide-peptide nucleic acid in diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic cancer. Methods Mol Med. 2005; 106:135-91.

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Chakrabarti A, Aruva MR, Sajankila SP, Thakur ML, Wickstrom E. Synthesis of novel peptide nucleic acid-peptide chimera for non-invasive imaging of cancer. Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids. 2005; 24(5-7):409-14.

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Blumenthal BM, Slizofski W, Hoffman M. Technetium-99m-labeled RBC bleeding scan in a patient with Osler-Weber-Rendu Disease. Clin Nucl Med. 2004 Dec; 29(12):861-3.

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Dontu VS, Kettle AG, O'Doherty MJ, Coakley AJ. Optimization of parathyroid imaging by simultaneous dual energy planar and single photon emission tomography. Nucl Med Commun. 2004 Nov; 25(11):1089-93.

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Thakur ML, Aruva MR, Gariepy J, Acton P, Rattan S, Prasad S, Wickstrom E, Alavi A. PET imaging of oncogene overexpression using 64Cu-vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) analog: comparison with 99mTc-VIP analog. J Nucl Med. 2004 Aug; 45(8):1381-9.

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Rao PS, Thakur ML, Pallela V, Patti R, Reddy K, Li H, Sharma S, Pham HL, Diggles L, Minami C, Marcus CS. 99mTc labeled VIP analog: evaluation for imaging colorectal cancer. Nucl Med Biol. 2001 May; 28(4):445-50.

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