Nuclear Radiation And Iodine

In this test you will ingest a very small dose of radioactive iodine.

Illegal weapon original lyrics in hindi. Your doctor will order a radioactive iodine uptake and scan to determine your dose the cause of your hyperthyroidism and information about your thyroid tissue. Iodine pills can protect health after nuclear radiation. Of iodine and only one is not radioactive iodine 127.

The chernobyl miniseries recently premiered on hbo giving many an up close look at what happened when the chernobyl. Radioactive iodine testing depending on the dose radioactive iodine can kill a portion or all of your thyroid. Iodine in the form of iodide is made into two radioactive forms of iodine that are commonly used in patients with thyroid diseases.

While iodine protects against radiation poisoning of the thyroid its radioactive state has also proven a useful emergency medical tool. Nuclear accidents are still fortunately rare enough that there havent been very conclusive studies on the results of radioactive iodine exposures. Radioiodine therapy is a nuclear medicine treatment for an overactive thyroid a condition called hyperthyroidism and also may be used to treat thyroid cancer.

Iodine chemical symbol i is a chemical element. Because of this radioactive iodine rai also called i 131 can be used to treat thyroid cancer. Galligan phd a professor of.

I 123 harmless to thyroid cells and i 131 destroys thyroid cellsthe radiation emitted by each of these forms of iodine can be detected from outside the patient to gain information about thyroid function and take pictures of the size and location of thyroid. But after chernobyl the most significant. When a small dose of radioactive iodine i 131 an isotope of iodine that emits radiation is swallowed it is absorbed into the bloodstream and concentrated by the thyroid gland where.

There are 37 known isotopes isotopea form of an element that has the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons in the nucleus giving it a different atomic mass. Iodine is often used to protect the thyroid from the effects of radiation as we were clearly reminded during the nuclear disaster at fukushima in 2011. For example uranium has thirty seven different isotopes including uranium 235 and uranium 238.