Recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of diagnostic and therapeutic
radiopharmaceuticals and concurrent miniaturization of particle accelerators leading to …

This book is a comprehensive guide to radiopharmaceutical chemistry. The stunning clinical
successes of nuclear imaging and targeted radiotherapy have resulted in rapid growth in the …

The long-lived radionuclides tritium and carbon-14 have been used for many years in
pharmaceutical research and development for making key efficacy and toxicological …

The future of nuclear medicine would appear to be the paradigm of personalized medicine—
targeted radionuclide therapy to spare healthy tissue, and theranostic medicine, which pairs …

Rapid and widespread growth in the use of nuclear medicine for both diagnosis and therapy
of disease has been the driving force behind burgeoning research interests in the design of …

The logic of total synthesis transformed a stagnant state of chemistry when there was a
paucity of methods and reagents to synthesize pharmaceuticals. Molecular imaging by …

The potential and future role of certain metal radionuclides, for example, 44Sc, 89Zr, 86Y,
64Cu, 68Ga, 177Lu, 225Ac, and 213Bi, and several terbium isotopes has been …

The synthesis of 11 C and 18 F labelled compounds for biomedical applications is a rapidly
growing field with applications in Neurology, Cardiology, Oncology and the study of human …

Medical application of ionizing radiation and radioactive isotopes were considered almost
immediately after their discovery. The intense research interest in radioactivity, materials …

Radioisotopes of elements from all parts of the periodic table find both clinical and research
applications in radionuclide molecular imaging and therapy (nuclear medicine). This article …