It would almost be worth having a stress fracture and lose a year or two of training in order to have an opportunity to come in contact with technetium. Any plans to track down some promethium, and then go for the whole table?
No plans as yet, but my gimpy body may indulge such an option. I have never been injected with radioisotope, so I am excited.
I should warn you now- the relatively short half life of Tc will leave you unsated and craving more- be warned :-)
Oh, waitaminnit. This probably isn't really 99Tc, it's 99mTc, right? Oh, but that's okay, because even though the half-life is only 6 hours, after gamma emission, it turns into 99Tc, and that has a half-life of 211000 years!
For some strange reason I feel compelled to add to this thread- oh well here goes...
Excited or excitement aren't really the operative words here- scintillated or you are scintillating far more apropos. Now you could gravitate to SPECT imaging or even PET if you so desired- hopefully none of that necessary.
Anyhow as a blast from the past and my infatuation with 99mTc try this:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC134090...
BL right imaging modality and hopefully will resolve matters so you can get on with training. Take care