If a nuclear medicine technologist introduces a short-lived radioactive isotope into an unstable detector, which outcome is more probable?

💡 Explanation

The introduced isotope's activity adds to the detector's noise floor causing artifacting because random interactions overwhelm any calibration benefits; the resultant high count rate yields corrupted images, therefore the artifacts increase; rather than correction reducing shifts in signal.

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