Molecular Nuclear Medicine is a medical specialty using small amounts of radioactive materials, called radiopharmaceuticals, to diagnose and treat disease.
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The JEEP II reactor at Kjeller is used for basic research in physics and material science, as well as production of radiopharmaceuticals.
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As a distributor of Bristol-Myers Squibb's Cardiolite, Syncor has been working to reduce its dependence on this radiopharmaceutical blockbuster.
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Gallium nitrate is used to treat the side effects of cancer; gallium citrate, a radiopharmaceutical, facilitates imaging of inflamed body areas.
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Nuclear medicine imaging involves the administration into the patient of radiopharmaceuticals consisting of substances with affinity for certain body tissues labeled with radioactive tracer.
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Nuclear-free zones usually neither address nor prohibit radiopharmaceuticals used in nuclear medicine even though many of them are produced in nuclear reactors.
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A number of radiopharmaceuticals are used, sometimes attached to organic molecules, to act as radioactive tracers or contrast agents in the human body.
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SPECT imaging performed after stress reveals the distribution of the radiopharmaceutical, and therefore the relative blood flow to the different regions of the myocardium.
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Other types of tissue selectively take up certain iodine-131-containing tissue-targeting and killing radiopharmaceutical agents ( such as MIBG ).
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Radium-223 dichloride ( USP, radium chloride Ra 223 ), tradename Xofigo ( formerly Alpharadin ), is an alpha-emitting radiopharmaceutical.
