In spite of its exotic heritage, technetium is now widely used in medicine as a diagnostic tool. Radioactive molybdenum-99 is allowed to decay to form technetium-99m — meaning 99 Tc in an ...

Technetium-99m (99mTc) is used in approximately 85% of diagnostic imaging procedures in nuclear medicine worldwide. Interruptions in the supply of molybdenum (99Mo), which is used to produce 99mTc, ...

Radioactive Technetium-99m is used in medicine to image the skeleton and heart and has a six-hour half-life. If it is injected into a patient and considered to be safe in 10 half-lives ...