Radiopharmaceuticals for imaging and therapy.
Radiopharmaceuticals for imaging and therapy.
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DOI:
10.1039/c1dt90067f
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发表时间:
2011-05
影响因子:
4
通讯作者:
S. Faulkner;N. Long
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作者:
S. Faulkner;N. Long
Radiopharmaceuticals have already made an enormous contribution to the diagnosis and therapy of disease. Rapid development of the field continues, with important new approaches to targeting, bioconjugation and control of biological kinetics as well as through the application and purification of new radioisotopes, the development of new experimental techniques and the application of radioisotopes in multimodal imaging. The time seems right to highlight and review these developments, and to present them in a single issue to the wider community of inorganic chemists. With this themed issue on radiopharmaceutical chemistry, we are aiming to highlight contributions from leading experts in the field, illustrating the scope of these new developments and analysing their potential in detail. This issue contains a mix of perspective articles and papers, which outline and expand upon some of the key themes in the current development of the field.The development of imaging modalities that make use of radioisotopes has allowed clinical scientists to understand and diagnose the progress of disease. Early tomographic probes focused upon imaging blood flow and blood pool, but their scope has been extended to truly functional imaging. In the clinic, the use of 18-FDG is now widespread, while metallic complexes with bifunctional chelating agents have been shown to target cell receptors and uptake pathways.