The Radiochemical and Radiopharmaceutical Applications of Radium
The Radiochemical and Radiopharmaceutical Applications of Radium
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DOI:
10.1515/chem-2016-0011
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发表时间:
2016-01-01
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2.3
通讯作者:
Mamat, Constantin
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作者:
Gott, Matthew;Steinbach, Joerg;Mamat, Constantin
This review focuses on the chemistry and application of radium isotopes to environmental monitoring, analytical, and medicinal uses. In recent years, radium has been used primarily as a tracer to study the migration of radioactive substances in environmental systems. Tracing the naturally occurring radium isotopes in mineral and water sources allows for the determination of source location, residence time, and concentrations. An understanding of the concentration of radionuclides in our food and water sources is essential to everyone's health as alpha particle decay is highly damaging in vivo. Due to this high radiobiological effectiveness, there is increased interest in using alpha-emitting radionuclides to prepare new, therapeutic radiopharmaceutical drugs. Selected studies from the recent literature are provided as examples of these modern applications of radium isotopes.