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Xenon’s Uses in Imaging and Healthcare

In addition to lighting, xenon’s noble gas properties impart advantages for medical and industrial imaging applications:

 

  • MRI – Hyperpolarized xenon gas enhances MRI imaging as an inhaled contrast agent.

  • Nuclear medicine – Radioactive xenon isotopes are used in diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals.

  • Anesthesia – Xenon has rapid anesthetic onset and low toxicity when inhaled at high concentrations.

  • PET/CT scans – Xenon-124 is a short half-life positron emitter for functional PET imaging studies.

  • Radiation detection – High-density xenon media in ionization chambers accurately measure radiation dosage.

  • Cryogenics – Liquid xenon’s scintillation is used to detect rare particle interactions in instruments.

Xenon will continue serving important roles in cutting-edge imaging technologies relying on its inert nature and special radiation properties.


Post time: Sep-18-2023