RADIONUCLIDE SYMBOL PHYSICAL RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS USES

HALF-LIFE
11
Carbon-11 C 20.3 min Acetate prostate
13
Nitrogen-13 N 10 min Ammonia Cardiac perfusion
15
Oxygen-15 O 124 sec Gas Brain perfusion
18
Fluorine-18 F 110 min FDG Tumor, cardiac
viability, brain
metabolism, infection
110 min Sodium Bone
67
Gallium-67 Ga 78.3 hr Citrate Infection, tumor
81m
Krypton-81m Kr 13 sec Gas Pulmonary ventilation
82
Rubidium-82 Rb 1.27 min Chloride Myocardial perfusion
99m
Technetium-99m Tc 6 hr Diphosphonate Bone
DISIDA (diisopropyl Biliary
iminodiacetic acid)
DMSA Renal cortical
DTPA Renal dynamic, brain
lung ventilation
ECD (Ethyl cysteine dimer) Brain perfusion
Glucoheptonate Brain, renal dynamic
HMPAO Brain perfusion
HMPAO with white cells Infection
Labeled red cells GI blood loss, cardiac
dysfunction, hepatic
hemangioma
MAA Lung perfusion, leVeen
(macroaggreagated albumin) shunt patency,
intraarterial liver
MAG3 (mertiatide) Renal
Mebrofenin Biliary
Pertechnetate Thyroid, salivary
glands, Meckel
diverticulum,
testicular
Sestamibi Myocardial perfusion
Sulfur colloid Lymphoscintigraphy
Teboroxime Myocardial perfusion
Tetrofosmin Myocardial perfusion
111
Indium-111 In 67 hr DTPA CSF flow, gastric
liquid emptying
Oxine labeled white cells Infection
Pentetreotide Somatostatin receptor
tumors
113m
Indium-113m In 1.7 hr
123
Iodine-123 I 13.2 hr Sodium Thyroid
MIBI Pheochromocytoma,
(Methoxy Iso Butyl Isonitrile) adrenal medullary
neural crest tumors
131
Iodine-131 I 8 day Sodium Thyroid cancer
127
Xenon-127 or 133 Xe or 5.3 day Gas Lung ventilation
133
Xe
201
Thallium-201 Tl 73.1 hr Chloride Myocardial perfusion