Radiopharmaceuticals And The Practice Of Radiopharmacy

Course overview

This tutorial is related to Radiopharmaceuticals and Practice of Radiopharmacy and gives an overview of its role in Nuclear Medicine. After completing the review of this tutorial, one should be able to 1.Define the term "radiopharmaceutical" and list the properties of the ideal diagnostic and ideal therapeutic radiopharmaceutical 2.Distinguish between the terms "radiopharmaceutical" and "radiochemical¿ 3.Discuss the properties common to all injectable drugs 4.State the regulation covering legal limits for calibrated doses compared to prescribed doses 5.List several examples of dynamic and static studies as well as in vivo non-imaging studies 6.Identify the imaging procedures/target organs associated with every radio-pharmaceutical used in the United States 7.Give the typical administered dose for each of these drugs and the route of administration 8.Describe the stannous reduction method and two other methods of radiolabeling compounds 9.Describe a hexacoordinated Tc complex and draw its octahedral structure 10.Explain the basic principles of red cell labeling using the stannous reduction method and describe the 3 distinct labeling processes. 11.Identify special patient preparations and restrictions used for several commonly used radiopharmaceuticals 12.Identify special patient preparations and restrictions used for several commonly used radiopharmaceuticals 13.List and give examples of the 6 classical mechanisms of localization of radiopharmaceuticals as well as some of the mechanisms associated with the newer radiopharmaceuticals 14.State legal particle size requirements for those preparations containing labeled particles.