Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Baum, Richard P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Medical Radiology,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Nuclear medicine.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.; Nuclear Medicine.

The recent revolution in molecular biology offers exciting new opportunities for targeted radionuclide therapy. The selective irradiation of tumor cells through molecular biological mechanisms is now permitting the radiopharmaceutical control of tumors that are unresectable and unresponsive to eithe...

Table of Contents:

• PART I: Basic Principles (11 chapters)
• PART II: Clinical Applications: Brain and Nasopharyngeal Tumors (4 chapters).-Thyroid Cancer (11 chapters)
• Benign Thyroid Diseases (2 chapters)
• Primary and Metastatic Liver Cancer (5 chapters)
• Bone and Joint Disease (5 chapters)
• Hematological Malignancies (8 chapters)
• Endocrine Tumors (2 chapters)
• Radioimmunotherapy (7 chapters)
• Intravascular/Intracavitary/Interstitial and Epidemal RadionuclideTherapy (5 chapters)
• PART III: Radiation Biology and Dosimetry (11 chapters)
• PART IV: Radiation Planning and Perspectives of Radionuclide Therapy (10 chapters)
• Subject Index.