TY  - CHAP
AU  - Chanchal Deep Kaur
AU  - Koushlesh Kumar Mishra
AU  - Anil Sahu
AU  - Rajnikant Panik
AU  - Pankaj Kashyap
AU  - Saraswati Prasad Mishra
AU  - Anand Kumar
ED  - Syed Ali Raza Naqvi
ED  - Muhammad Babar Imrani
Y1  - 2020-04-24
PY  - 2020
T1  - Theranostics: New Era in Nuclear Medicine and Radiopharmaceuticals
N2  - Radioisotopes are widely used in the medical field for imaging and therapy of diseases by themselves or by tagging with other molecules that have the potential to target diseased cells. In imaging protocol, the radioisotope, such as technetium-99m or indium-111, decays through ?-radiation emissions, which are located by a scintigraphic camera (SPECT or PET) in the form of 2/3D image formation of the diseased organ. The other kind of radioisotopes, such as Lutetium-177 or Actinium-225, are those that decay through ?/?-decay, which is due to its valuable linear energy transfer that is in clinical use to eliminate diseased cells. This book will cover valuable information about selected diagnostic and therapeutic radioisotopes along with localization mechanisms of radioisotopes directly or through nanoparticles at diseased cells.
BT  - Medical Isotopes
SP  - Ch. 4
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.91868
DO  - 10.5772/intechopen.91868
SN  - 978-1-83880-628-6
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-25
ER  -