InTech, 2011. — 330 p. — ISBN: 9533077482 9789533077482The subject matter will by highly useful to the medical and paramedical staff in hospitals, as well as researchers and scholars in the field of nuclear medicine medical physics and nuclear bio-chemistry etc.
This book contains two sections: Radioisotopes and Radiations in Bioscience and Radioisotopes and Radiology in Medical Science.
Section I includes chapters on medical radioisotope production, radio-labeled nano-particles, radioisotopes and nano-medicine, use of radiations in insects, drug research, medical radioisotopes and use of radioisotopes in interdisciplinary fields etc.
Section II chapters related to production of metal PET (positron emission tomography) radioisotopes, 3-dimensional and CT (computed tomography) scan, SS nuclear medicine in imaging, cancer diagnose and treatments have been included.Contents:
Preface
Radioisotopes and Radiations in Bioscience
Medical Radioisotopes Production: A Comprehensive Cross-Section Study for the Production of Mo and Tc Radioisotopes Via Proton Induced Nuclear Reactions on natMo
Use of Radioactive Precursors for Biochemical Characterization the Biosynthesis of Isoprenoids in Intraerythrocytic Stages of Plasmodium falciparum
Radioisotopes and Nano medicine
Use of Radiation and Isotopes in Insects
Radioisotopes in Drug Research and Development: Focus on Positron Emission Tomography
Application of Radioisotopes in Biochemical Analyses: Metal Binding Proteins and Metal Transporters
Undesirable Radioisotopes Induced by Therapeutic Beams from Medical Linear Accelerators
The Use of Radioisotopes to Characterise the Abnormal Permeability of Red Blood Cells from Sickle Cell Patients
Boron Studies in Interdisciplinary Fields Employing Nuclear Track Detectors (NTDs)
Radioisotopes and Radiology in Medical Science
Production and Selection of Metal PET Radioisotopes for Molecular Imaging
Radio label led Nanoparticles for Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer
3-Dimensional CT Lymphography in Identifying the Sentinel Node in Breast Cancer
Nuclear Medicine in the Imaging and Management of Breast Cancer
Axillary Reverse Mapping in Breast Cancer
Lymphedema: Clinical Picture, Diagnosis and Management
Targeting the Causes of Intractable Chronic Constipation in Children: The Nuclear Transit Study (NTS)
