Published 1984 | Version v1
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Radiopharmaceuticals in the detection and treatment of cancer

Creators

  • 1. Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown (Australia). Dept. of Nuclear Medicine

Description

A review is given of the merits and limitations of the use of radiopharmaceuticals for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Two techniques which hold great promise for detecting tumour function in vivo are noted. These are position emission tomography and nuclear magnetic resonance

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
School of Nuclear Engineering, University of New South Wales.
Imprint Place
Sydney (Australia)
ISBN
0 858 23350 9
Imprint Title
Nuclear radiation applications: condensed proceedings of a one-day seminar
Imprint Pagination
58 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 43-45.

Conference

Title
Conference on nuclear radiation applications.
Dates
22 Feb 1984.
Place
Sydney (Australia).

INIS

Country of Publication
Australia
Country of Input or Organization
Australia
INIS RN
15064321
Subject category
S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
DIAGNOSIS; IODINE 123; IODINE 131; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
Descriptors DEC
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; IODINE ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MEDICINE; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; RADIOISOTOPES; RESONANCE; TOMOGRAPHY