Radiopharmacy

Radiopharmacy

Radiopharmacy is a specialized pharmacy service that involves the preparation and/or manufacturing of radiopharmaceuticals for nuclear medicine. It is also known as nuclear pharmacy and is a multidisciplinary field that is involved in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in humans through the administration of radiopharmaceuticals.From: Encyclopaedia of Medical Physics [2020], Handbook of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging for Physicists [2022]

Principles behind Radiopharmacy

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Published in Michael Ljungberg, Handbook of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging for Physicists, 2022

Thuy A. Tran, Erik Samén

The fields of radiopharmacy and radiochemistry are evolving rapidly and have contributed to the nuclear medicine field with novel radiopharmaceuticals. Development of new radiopharmaceuticals is the driving force in molecular imaging. Some trends and developments in radiopharmacy are highlighted below.

Investigation of heat deposition in cyclotron targets for radionuclide production

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Published in Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids, 2020

M. Holstein, D. Krupp, U. W. Scherer

There is an increasing demand in radionuclides for use in nuclear medicine (1). Some fraction of the required production can be covered by so-called ‘medical’ cyclotrons whose numbers have grown strongly over the past two decades. However, operating such devices on a daily basis needs a large number of personnel for operating the cyclotron, radionuclide production, radiochemical separation and radiopharmacy production, not to speak of staff in radiation protection. Hence, there is great advantage to produce large amounts of radionuclides production in central installations. This, however, means the amount of radionuclide produced has to be adapted to the growing demand.

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Principles behind Radiopharmacy

Investigation of heat deposition in cyclotron targets for radionuclide production