PubMed · 4077521
A method to label cigarette smoke with 99mTc.
Abstract
A method is described to label with 99mTc the particulate matter in the smoke from commercially obtained cigarettes. A solution of technetium heptasulfide is applied to the paper wrapper of the tobacco rod and then dried. Smoke from a cigarette treated in this way contains measurable amounts of 99mTc in the particulate phase. In contrast, no measurable radioactivity is found in the non-particulate (gaseous) phase of smoke. This method yields a gamma-emitting cigarette smoke which will permit future observation of particulate intake, deposition and clearance in experimental animals and man.
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J E McNamee, A Boykin, D Adcock, J Crisp. 1985. A method to label cigarette smoke with 99mTc.. https://doi.org/10.1097/00004032-198512000-00014
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