Preclinical and clinical status of PSMA-targeted alpha therapy for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer

A Juzeniene, VY Stenberg, ØS Bruland, RH Larsen - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Currently, there is no treatment that can cure patients with late stage
metastatic prostate cancer. Prostate-specific membrane antigen is a type of protein …

Development of radiopharmaceuticals for targeted alpha therapy: Where do we stand?

RM Pallares, RJ Abergel - Frontiers in medicine, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Targeted alpha therapy is an oncological treatment, where cytotoxic doses of alpha radiation
are locally delivered to tumor cells, while the surrounding healthy tissue is minimally …

Radionuclides for targeted therapy: physical properties

C Stokke, M Kvassheim, J Blakkisrud - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
A search in PubMed revealed that 72 radionuclides have been considered for molecular or
functional targeted radionuclide therapy. As radionuclide therapies increase in number and …

Compton imaging for medical applications

H Tashima, T Yamaya - Radiological Physics and Technology, 2022 - Springer
Compton imaging exploits inelastic scattering, known as Compton scattering, using a
Compton camera consisting of a scatterer detector in the front layer and an absorber …

Global experience with PSMA-based alpha therapy in prostate cancer

MM Sathekge, F Bruchertseifer, M Vorster… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose This review discusses the current state of prostate-specific membrane antigen
(PSMA)-based alpha therapy of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) …

Dosimetry in clinical radiopharmaceutical therapy of cancer: practicality versus perfection in current practice

N Pandit-Taskar, A Iravani, D Lee… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - jnm.snmjournals.org
The use of radiopharmaceutical therapies (RPTs) in the treatment of cancers is growing
rapidly, with more agents becoming available for clinical use in last few years and many new …

Monoclonal antibody based radiopharmaceuticals for imaging and therapy

M Lin, V Paolillo, DB Le, H Macapinlac… - Current Problems in …, 2021 - Elsevier
The concept of personalized medicine has been steadily growing for the past decades.
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are undoubtedly playing an important role in the transition …

Quantitative SPECT/CT imaging of lead-212: a phantom study

M Kvassheim, MER Revheim, C Stokke - EJNMMI physics, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Lead-212 (212Pb) is a promising radionuclide for targeted therapy, as
it decays to α-particle emitter bismuth-212 (212Bi) via β-particle emission. This extends the …

Role of artificial intelligence in theranostics: toward routine personalized radiopharmaceutical therapies

J Brosch-Lenz, F Yousefirizi, K Zukotynski… - PET clinics, 2021 - pet.theclinics.com
Metabolic processes or specific receptors serve as targets for the design of appropriate
radiopharmaceuticals. The principle of “theranostics,” in the context of nuclear medicine (Fig …

Evolving SPECT-CT technology

KP Willowson, DL Bailey - British Journal of Radiology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Both hardware and software developments have seen single photon emission CT
(SPECT)/X-ray CT technology grow at a rapid rate. Such growth has been fuelled by the …