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I remember my senior advisor student tellimg me a story how she went to industrial lab internship in a hospital with these things.
They had their own little collider there. They made synthetic radioactive cocaine to study something in the brain.
They didn’t measure the drug dosage, they just filled the syringe and waited holding it near a radiation counter for radiation to drop to desired level.
Once she spilled something and dipped her hand in it. She was told to hold a hand away rfom the body for a day - on a train ride home, in shower, in sleep - to protect internal organs. Next day, radiation was gone, down to natural level.
These things are amazing.
“synthetic radioactive cocaine” is a hell of a phrase.
It’s pretty rad.
Many drugs are made as radiochemicals to see how they distribute in the body. It’s mostly the liver. Some drugs work specifically as radiochemicals to bring ionizing radiation to tumors to kill them.
That poor poor liver, taking the brunt of our misdeeds.
To be fair, though, that’s its literal raison d’être.
A liver complaining about dealing with harmful stuff would be like a dung beetle complaining about having to roll shit around 🤷
new band name
No cheap ass crack for me. I splurge for the good stuff.
No cheap ass-crack for me. I splurge for the good stuff.
You mean my gluteal bisector?
Would also make for a hell of a band name if not for the first two words sounding clunky together 🤔
Nuked coke, illegitimate?
Irradiated faux-coke?
Nuked Fauxke? 🤷Removed by mod
https://www.scho-ka-kola.de/homepage-english.html Totally particle accelerator targets
the page doesn’t seem to mention the coolest fact that, like coca-cola, the composition was a bit different a century ago.
Referring to PET I suppose?
PSA:
PET is a common imaging technique, a medical scintillography technique used in nuclear medicine. A radiopharmaceutical—a radioisotope attached to a drug—is injected into the body as a tracer. When the radiopharmaceutical undergoes beta plus decay, a positron is emitted, and when the positron interacts with an ordinary electron, the two particles annihilate and two gamma rays are emitted in opposite directions.[6] These gamma rays are detected by two gamma cameras to form a three-dimensional image.
It fucking blew my mind when I realized what the “P” in that acronym stood for.
Wait is it fucking positron‽ Shit yeah it is.
In case anyone is confused, positrons are anti-electrons
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I use the same machine for my dick pics.
Are there other antimatter imaging methods?
Pedantically, I think you could call muon tomography an antimatter imaging method. It doesnt explicitly use antimatter as a probe, but you do often measure products of antimatter decay or decay products that are antimatter themselves when doing it (depending on how much fidelity you need on the structure being imaged). I say pedantically because I assume you meant medical imaging methods and muon tomography doesnt have medical applications afaik
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2013.00037/full (I didn’t read the article, I just remembered that this was under consideration)
Can someone ELIF this for me?
Which Enterprise is that?
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Antimatter remind me of this Fringe scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdoO5tCCOms
