Radiotheranostics - A Primer for Medical Physicists I

Section I: Introduction. Chapter 1: What is radiotheranostics? Chapter 2: History of radionuclide therapy and theranostics. Chapter 3: Biological principles behind targeted radionuclide therapy for cancer. Section II: Clinical Applications of Targeted Radionuclide Therapy in Cancer Control. Chapter 4: Unconjugated radionuclides. Chapter 5: Radionuclide-conjugated cancer-specific vectors: Peptides. Chapter 6: Radionuclide-conjugated cancer-specific vectors: Small Molecules and antibodies. Chapter 7: Radionuclide-conjugated cancer-specific vectors: Nanoparticles. Chapter 8: Introduction to clinical trials and drug development for radionuclide therapies. Chapter 9: Epidemiologic Studies of Cancer Risk among Patients Administered Radionuclides. Chapter 10: Adverse effects of radionuclide therapy. Section III: Radiation Chemistry and Physics. Chapter 11: Radionuclide production. Chapter 12: Radioactivity measurement and traceability. Chapter 13: Instrumentation, calibration, quantitative imaging, and quality control. Section IV: The Future. Chapter 14: Human resources: Multidisciplinary team education, training, and competence. Chapter 15: Theranostics today: Looking backwards to tomorrow.

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• Ciências da vida: temas gerais
• Radiologia
• Oncologia
• Física médica
• Medicina nuclear

targeted radionuclide therapy;peptide receptor therapy;molecular imaging agents;clinical trial design oncology;radiation injury management;multidisciplinary team training;radionuclide vector development