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

<https://nuclide.cc/terms/effective-half-life/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  nuclide:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "effective-half-life" ;
  schema:name "Effective half-life"@en ;
  schema:description "The real-world time it takes for the radioactivity in a patient's organ to fall by half, combining both the radioactive atom's own decay and the body's own clearance of the drug. It is always shorter than either process acting alone, and it is the number that actually drives how much radiation dose an organ receives."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/terms/effective-half-life/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_half-life>, <https://www.lumen.luc.edu/lumen/meded/radio/nuc_med/radpharm/sect-a3.htm> ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/terms/biological-half-life/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/half-life/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/time-activity-curve/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/decay-correction/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/lu-177/> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/radioligand-dosimetry/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/in-vivo-dosimetry/> .