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Discuss dose implications of half-life choice.
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Radionuclide imaging and therapy
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Half-life in medicine
Aqa A Level PhysicsMedical physics
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Discuss dose implications of half-life choice
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- You need to be able to discuss dose implications of half-life choice.
- The key ideas to know are half-life and dose.
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