I have before me the draft guidance for maximizing the supply of technetium, and it seems to be based on the Ontario plan. |
An isotope of the rare element technetium, denoted Tc, is widely used to form images of the heart, brain, lungs, spleen, and other organs. |
The way you handle thallium, for example, is different from the way you handle technetium, so management is not as easy as with the technetium. |
For many years technetium was an insignificant part of the cost of a ready pharmaceutical. |
Those that do not, such as technetium and americium, have been substituted, respectively, by rhenium and neodymium, which have similar traits. |
All forms of the element technetium are radioactive and have relatively short half-lives. |