Radiometals possess an exceptional breadth of decay properties and have been applied to
medicine with great success for several decades. The majority of current clinical use …

Radiometals comprise many useful radioactive isotopes of various metallic elements. When
properly harnessed, these have valuable emission properties that can be used for …

Molecular imaging is the visualization, characterization, and measurement of biological
processes at the molecular and cellular levels in humans and other living systems …

The imaging of specific molecular targets that are associated with cancer should allow
earlier diagnosis and better management of oncology patients. Positron emission …

The use of radionuclides in medicine is based largely on the discoveries of two critical
concepts, the “tracer principle” and the “magic bullet”. In 1913, George de Hevesy …

Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) constitute a heterogeneous group of neoplasms that
originate from endocrine glands such as the pituitary, the parathyroids, and the …

Summation Copper-64 (T1/2= 12.7 hours; β+, 0.653 MeV [17.8%]; β−, 0.579 MeV [38.4%])
has decay characteristics that allow for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging and …

Background—Macrophages participate centrally in atherosclerosis, and macrophage
markers (eg, CD68, MAC-3) correlate well with lesion severity and therapeutic modulation …

Although copper–ligand complexes appear to be promising as a new class of therapeutics,
other than the family of copper (II) coordination compounds referred to as casiopeínas these …

Somatostatin receptors (SSTRs) are variably expressed by a variety of malignancies. Using
radiolabeled somatostatin analogs (SSAs), the presence of SSTRs on tumor cells may be …