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Chapter-24 Radionuclide Therapy

BOOK TITLE: Principles and Practice of Nuclear Medicine and Correlation Medical Imaging

Author
1. Lele RD
ISBN
9788184484816
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/10672_24
Edition
1/e
Publishing Year
2009
Pages
19
Author Affiliations
1. Jaslok Hospital and Research Center, Mumbai, India, Grant Medical College, and JJ Hospital, Mumbai, e-mail: lele1@vsnl.com, Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Abstract

Principles of radionuclide therapy and the commonly used isotopes with their physical characteristics are given. Utility of NIS in imaging and therapy is given. Radioiodine therapy, MIBG therapy, PRRT has been described. Radioimmunotherapy, antibody detected enzyme product therapy, use of nanobodies, immunoliposomes are the recent advances.

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