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  • Jer 🚲jerzone@techhub.social
    May 10, 2026, 12:03 PM

    Ready to face the coming week.

    PET scan tomorrow, first since radiation therapy last Fall. We'll get to see how the tumor has fared and if anything new has developed. First off, injected with a radioactive isotope laced copper 64Cu dotatate then, after an hour of it circulating, off to a specialized CT/PET scan.

    The isotopes undergo beta plus decay and a positron is emitted, which hits an electron causing two gamma rays to shoot out in opposite directions hitting scintillating crystals which cameras pick up and a computer triangulates into a 3 dimensional location. I mistakenly call it a proton or photon, mostly I just like to say scintillating crystals.
    It's not exactly a radioactive spider bite, but rumors have it that legs get a little stronger for mt biking.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_(

    Red Eft climbed up on the top of a fallen moss covered log appears to be looking to the future, or at least off into the deep woods ahead. I do not know how far an eft can actually look and if that's the main motivation for where they go.
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