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Cancer
A substance (such as a radioisotope) used in imaging procedures.
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Food Biotechnology
A substance (typically a radioactive isotope or a fluorescent dye) that can be detected by physical means, and which is used to analyse the progress of a chemical reaction or a biological process.
Nuclear Physics
A small amount of radioactive isotope introduced into a system in order to follow the behavior of some component of that system.
- — Glossary of Nuclear Science Terms retrieved 2014-05-20