It is also used as a tracer for water transport studies in life science research.

In the presence of disease, a tracer will often be distributed around the body and or processed differently.

Any increased physiological function, such as due to a fracture in the bone, will usually mean increased concentration of the tracer.

The Secretariat has undertaken to introduce a single tracer document that would identify key steps in a given engagement and will consider integrating quality assurance elements therein.

The patient receives an injection of a radio tracer that's taken up by rapidly proliferating tumor cells, but not by normal cells, and this is the key difference from mammography.

10.43 Data from the 1997 graduate tracer study show that Government employed 62 per cent of graduates it also showed that females were less likely to undertake post graduate study.

The research of the ESL group received a boost with a contract award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency to validate a line source model using sulfur hexafluoride as a tracer gas.