radiometabolic

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English

Etymology

radio- +‎ metabolic

Adjective

radiometabolic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to radiometabolism.
    • 2014, Pier Luigi Filosso, Clinical Management of Neuroendocrine Tumors of the Lung
      Because a certain or definitive diagnosis may not be easily obtained, radiometabolic evaluation represents a sort of noninvasive biopsy trying to correlate as accurately as possible the uptake pattern of pNETs [] with the histologic types.