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An identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object. An application in nuclear medicine is where this marker is a tracer having a radioisotope and the object is a blood plasma-carrying substance.

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Correspondence to Joseph A. Thie Ph.D., D.Sc. .

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Thie, J.A. (2012). L. In: Nuclear Medicine Imaging: An Encyclopedic Dictionary. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25035-4_11

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