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  2. Isotopes in medicine - Wikipedia

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    Radioactive isotopes are used in medicine for both treatment and diagnostic scans. The most common isotope used in diagnostic scans is Technetium-99m, used in approximately 85% of all nuclear medicine diagnostic scans worldwide. It is used for diagnoses involving a large range of body parts and diseases such as cancers and neurological problems ...

  3. Radiopharmaceutical - Wikipedia

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    A list of nuclear medicine radiopharmaceuticals follows. Some radioisotopes are used in ionic or inert form without attachment to a pharmaceutical; these are also included. There is a section for each radioisotope with a table of radiopharmaceuticals using that radioisotope. The sections are ordered alphabetically by the English name of the ...

  4. Radiopharmacology - Wikipedia

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    Radiopharmacology is radiochemistry applied to medicine and thus the pharmacology of radiopharmaceuticals (medicinal radiocompounds, that is, pharmaceutical drugs that are radioactive). Radiopharmaceuticals are used in the field of nuclear medicine as radioactive tracers in medical imaging and in therapy for many diseases (for example ...

  5. Nuclear medicine - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear medicine (nuclear radiology, nucleology), [1] [2] is a medical specialty involving the application of radioactive substances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Nuclear imaging is, in a sense, radiology done inside out , because it records radiation emitted from within the body rather than radiation that is transmitted through ...

  6. Nuclear pharmacy - Wikipedia

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    The concept of nuclear pharmacy was first described in 1960 by Captain William H. Briner while at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.Along with Mr. Briner, John E. Christian, who was a professor in the School of Pharmacy at Purdue University, had written articles and contributed in other ways to set the stage of nuclear pharmacy.

  7. Radiation therapy - Wikipedia

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    A major use of systemic radioisotope therapy is in the treatment of bone metastasis from cancer. The radioisotopes travel selectively to areas of damaged bone, and spare normal undamaged bone. Isotopes commonly used in the treatment of bone metastasis are radium-223, [113] strontium-89 and samarium (153 Sm) lexidronam. [114]

  8. Radionuclide - Wikipedia

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    most commonly used medical radioisotope, used as a radioactive tracer Iodine-129: 53: 76: 15,700,000 y: β −: 194 Cosmogenic: longest lived fission product; groundwater tracer Iodine-131: 53: 78: 8 d: β −: 971 Fission product: most significant short-term health hazard from nuclear fission, used in nuclear medicine, industrial tracer Xenon ...

  9. Category:Medical isotopes - Wikipedia

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    Note that medical isotopes may be not radioactive, for example deuterium (2 H) in deuterated drug. Pages in category "Medical isotopes" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.