# Nuclide record decay-correction (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://nuclide.cc/terms/decay-correction/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  nuclide:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "decay-correction" ;
  schema:name "Decay correction"@en ;
  schema:description "Adjusting a radioactivity measurement to account for the fact that the sample kept decaying between the moment it was measured and the moment you actually care about, such as when the dose was drawn up versus when it was injected, or between two scans taken hours apart."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/terms/decay-correction/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1605_web.pdf>, <https://tech.snmjournals.org/content/jnmt/early/2021/09/27/jnmt.121.262320.full.pdf> ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/terms/time-activity-curve/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/effective-half-life/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/becquerel-curie/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/o-15/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/rb-82/> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/radioligand-dosimetry/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/pet/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/spect/> .