Radionuclide is an English word. Below you'll find 8 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Radionuclide meaning
a radioactive nuclide
Using Radionuclide
- The main meaning on this page is: a radioactive nuclide
- In the example corpus, radionuclide often appears in combinations such as: the radionuclide.
Context around Radionuclide
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Radionuclide
- In this selection, "radionuclide" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, test, targeted, emitting, scan, therapy and tracer stand out and add context to how "radionuclide" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a weak radionuclide because of and first targeted radionuclide therapy in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "radionuclide" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with radionuclide
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Radionuclide testing using thallium or technetium can be used to demonstrate areas of perfusion abnormalities. (15 words)
Gamma rays, emitted indirectly by a positron-emitting radionuclide (tracer), are detected in positron emission tomography (PET) scanners used in hospitals. (21 words)
Tritium is considered a weak radionuclide because of its low-energy radioactive emissions ( beta particle energy up to 18.6 keV). (21 words)
Such a molecule will take its radiation tag to the heart and you can visualise the heart structure with all its chambers and vessels using the X-ray-like image that is generated by the radiation emission from the radionuclide on the molecule. (43 words)
A synthetic radioisotope is a radionuclide that is not found in nature: no natural process or mechanism exists which produces it, or it is so unstable that it decays away in a very short period of time. (37 words)
However, in a few cases of odd-proton, odd-neutron radionuclides, it may be energetically favorable for the radionuclide to decay to an even-proton, even-neutron isobar either by undergoing beta-positive or beta-negative decay. (37 words)
Example sentences (8)
Further tests may be needed to confirm coronary heart disease, including a treadmill test, radionuclide scan, CT scan, MRI scan or coronary angiography.
UKC Ljubljana performed the first targeted radionuclide therapy in the country on two patients with an incurable type of advanced prostate cancer.
Such a molecule will take its radiation tag to the heart and you can visualise the heart structure with all its chambers and vessels using the X-ray-like image that is generated by the radiation emission from the radionuclide on the molecule.
A synthetic radioisotope is a radionuclide that is not found in nature: no natural process or mechanism exists which produces it, or it is so unstable that it decays away in a very short period of time.
Gamma rays, emitted indirectly by a positron-emitting radionuclide (tracer), are detected in positron emission tomography (PET) scanners used in hospitals.
However, in a few cases of odd-proton, odd-neutron radionuclides, it may be energetically favorable for the radionuclide to decay to an even-proton, even-neutron isobar either by undergoing beta-positive or beta-negative decay.
Radionuclide testing using thallium or technetium can be used to demonstrate areas of perfusion abnormalities.
Tritium is considered a weak radionuclide because of its low-energy radioactive emissions ( beta particle energy up to 18.6 keV).
Common combinations with radionuclide
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: