# Nuclide record o-15 (isotope). 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/isotopes/o-15/>
  a schema:ChemicalSubstance ;
  nuclide:kind "isotope" ;
  schema:identifier "o-15" ;
  schema:name "Oxygen-15"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "15O"@en ;
  schema:description "A radioactive form of oxygen with a two-minute lifetime, made into water and injected to measure blood flow to the brain or heart; used almost exclusively in research because it decays too fast for routine hospital use in the US."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/o-15/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7603916/>, <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11083888/> ;
  nuclide:status "emerging" ;
  nuclide:tag "positron emitter", "shortest-lived PET isotope", "cerebral blood flow" ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/pet/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/cyclotron-isotope-production/> .