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Iodine-123 may be the preferred radionuclide in some clinics due to its more favourable radiation dosimetry ( i. e. less radiation dose to the patient per unit administered radioactivity ) and a gamma photon energy more amenable to imaging with the gamma camera.
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The uptake test involves administering a dose of radioactive iodine ( radioiodine ), traditionally Iodine-131 or < sup > 131 </ sup > I, and more recently Iodine-123 or < sup > 123 </ sup > I.
Instead the more purely gamma-emitting radioiodine Iodine-123 is used in diagnostic testing ( nuclear medicine scan of the thyroid ).
Iodine-123 and .
File: thyroid scan. jpg | Thyroid scan with Iodine-123 for evaluation of hyperthyroidism.
Iodine-123 whole body scan for thyroid cancer evaluation.
Iodine-123 and imaging
The above study was performed with Technetium-Sestamibi ( 1st column ) and Iodine-123 ( 2nd column ) simultaneous imaging and the subtraction technique ( 3rd column ).
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`` The accommodations may not be the poshest, but man!!
The race problem has tended to obscure other, less emotional, issues which may fundamentally be even more divisive.
Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.
Nevertheless, it may be helpful to cite one example -- that of employment -- for, as will be shown below, it cuts across both facets of the new concept.
A measure of its widespread acceptance may be derived from a statement of the International Congress of Jurists in 1959.
Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.
What these fragments are and how they activate the go order may not be revealed.
An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.
While there may still be many Faulknerian Lucas Beauchamps scattered through the rural South, such men appear to be a vanishing breed.
or it may involve more subtle distinctions: the sway may be gradually minimized or enlarged, its rhythmic emphasis may be slightly modified, or it may be transferred to become a movement of only the arms or the head.
The approach to the depiction of the experience of creation may be analytic, as it is for Miss Litz, or spontaneous, as it is for Merle Marsicano.
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To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.
From the evidence `` it may be conjectured that core - core marriages are the preferred unions for core males and females ; ;
When looking for a long-term partner more conventional altruism may be preferred which may indicate that he is also willing to share resources with her and her children while when looking for a short-term partner heroic risk-taking, which may be costly signal showing good genes, may be more preferable.
Long-term trials have shown continued effectiveness without the development of tolerance, and, in addition, unlike benzodiazepines, it does not disrupt sleep architecture and produces less severe cognitive and psychomotor impairment ; it also has a low potential for abuse and dependence and may be preferred over the benzodiazepines for these reasons.
They state that response to any given antipsychotic can be variable so that trials may be necessary, and that lower doses are to be preferred where possible.
One advantage of benzodiazepines is that they alleviate the anxiety symptoms much faster than antidepressants, and therefore may be preferred in patients for whom rapid symptom control is critical.
Memantine has a more targeted pharmacological profile for the glutamate system, reduced incidence of psychosis and may therefore be preferred for individuals who cannot tolerate amantadine.
If the rider plans a significant amount of hillclimbing, a triple-crank ( three chainrings ) front gear system may be preferred.
#" In discrepant readings, that should be preferred which may have given occasion to the rest, or which appears to comprise the elements of the others.
Since only one tech may be " researched " at any given time, the order in which technologies are chosen makes a considerable difference in the outcome of the game and generally reflects the player's preferred style of gameplay.
Some people speak of cultural coercion when the fear of falling out with the group may force people into wearing a certain style of dress, publicly reciting a creed or a pledge of allegiance which they find ethically reprehensible or starting to smoke when they would have preferred not to etc.
Curried functions may be used in any language that supports closures ; however, uncurried functions are generally preferred for efficiency reasons, since the overhead of partial application and closure creation can then be avoided for most function calls.
For instance, hybrid instruments such as convertible bonds and / or convertible preferred may be listed on stock or bond exchanges.
Also unlike NBTE, Libman-Sacks endocarditis does not seem to have a preferred location of deposition and may form on the undersurfaces of the valves or even on the endocardium.
Any consistent set of units may be used, although SI units are preferred.
Whether this similarity was intentional or accidental, it may explain why the plainer fashion of placing the stars in three parallel rows was preferred by many Americans over the quincuncial style.
Evaporation losses during glass melting should be considered during the selection of the raw materials, e. g., sodium selenite may be preferred over easily evaporating SeO < sub > 2 </ sub >.
Also, more readily reacting raw materials may be preferred over relatively inert ones, such as Al ( OH )< sub > 3 </ sub > over Al < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 3 </ sub >.
These other gelling agents may also be preferred for certain traditional cuisines or dietary restrictions.
A player may dribble as many times as he wants ( though since passing is faster it is the preferred method of attack ) as long as during each dribble his hand contacts only the top of the ball.
Justin may have preferred the designation " memoirs of the apostles " as a contrast to the " gospel " of his contemporary Marcion to emphasize the connections between the historical testimony of the gospels and the Old Testament prophecies which Marcion rejected.
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In " stable " angina, chest pain with typical features occurring at predictable levels of exertion, various forms of cardiac stress tests may be used to induce both symptoms and detect changes by way of electrocardiography ( using an ECG ), echocardiography ( using ultrasound of the heart ) or scintigraphy ( using uptake of radionuclide by the heart muscle ).
A spill or ongoing releases of chemical or radionuclide contaminants into soil ( located away from a surface water body ) may not create point source or non-point source pollution, but can contaminate the aquifer below, defined as a toxin plume.
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We are worried about what people may do with them -- that some crazy fool may `` push the button ''.
I am usually filled with an uneasiness that through some unwitting slip all hell may break loose.
The artistic interest, then, lies in what the encounter may be made to represent, in the power of some central significance to draw the details into relevance and meaningfulness.
In The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, it may be noted, Swift himself contemptuously dismissed Steele's reference to his friend at court: `` I suppose by the Style of old Friend, and the like, it must be some Body there of his own Level ; ;
There is a second feature of the influences of literature, good literature, on emotional life which may have some special value for our time.
This understanding, of course, may in its turn take many forms and some of these -- especially those most interesting to the student of comparative literature -- are essentially historical.
If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.
`` As Mrs. Morris may be in some want before that time '', Lafayette continued, `` I am going to trouble you with a commission which I beg you will execute with the greatest secrecy.
In his second letter the old mercer advised his son `` to bye some such warys as yow may selle presentlye with profet.
Unconsciously, governments or races or institutions may enter into some undertaking without fully realizing why they are doing so.
A nation may go to war on some trifling pretext, when in reality it may have been guided by an unconscious instinct that its very life was at stake.
His early poems and some of his prose prolusions speak of wanderings in the city and the neighboring country that may be extended to Cambridge and its surrounding countryside.
Ball games, especially football, required some attention, and other organized sports may have attracted him as participant or spectator.
We may say of some unfortunates that they were never young.
To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.
The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.
In the central contest, that for Mayor, they may have found some pertinent points in what each faction has said about the other.
Within the Organization of American States, there may be some criticism of this unilateral American intervention which was not without risk obviously.
Prince Sihanouk's powers of prognostication some day may be confirmed but history is not likely to praise the courage of his convictions.
much of the glamor President Kennedy's Peace Corps may have held for some prospective applicants has been removed by Sargent Shriver, the head corpsman.
As he grows older it may be a matter of providing some accustomed object ( his `` magic '' thing ).
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