Radiochemistry for positron emission tomography

J Rong, A Haider, TE Jeppesen, L Josephson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Positron emission tomography (PET) constitutes a functional imaging technique that is
harnessed to probe biological processes in vivo. PET imaging has been used to diagnose …

Colloquium: Positronium physics and biomedical applications

SD Bass, S Mariazzi, P Moskal, E Stępień - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023 - APS
Positronium is the simplest bound state, built of an electron and a positron. Studies of
positronium in vacuum and its decays in medium tell us about quantum electrodynamics …

New radionuclides and technological advances in SPECT and PET scanners

NP van der Meulen, K Strobel, TVM Lima - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Advances in nuclear medicine are made by technological and
radionuclide improvements. Throughout nuclear medicine's history, these advances were …

Synergistic Nanoarchitectonics: Precision Membrane Engineering for Rare Earth Selective Separation

Z Lv, X Zhang, Q Gao, C Wen, Y He… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Rare earth elements (REEs) are vital in high‐tech industries and defense due to their
strategic significance. Crafting an efficient membranes channel for REE separation poses a …

Cutting edge rare earth radiometals: prospects for cancer theranostics

AWE Sadler, L Hogan, B Fraser… - EJNMMI Radiopharmacy …, 2022 - Springer
Background With recent advances in novel approaches to cancer therapy and imaging, the
application of theranostic techniques in personalised medicine has emerged as a very …

Scandium Radioisotopes—Toward New Targets and Imaging Modalities

K Kilian, K Pyrzyńska - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The concept of theranostics uses radioisotopes of the same or chemically similar elements
to label biological ligands in a way that allows the use of diagnostic and therapeutic …

Accelerator-based production of scandium radioisotopes for applications in prostate cancer: Toward building a pipeline for rapid development of novel theranostics

JP Meier, HJ Zhang, R Freifelder, M Bhuiyan, P Selman… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the field of nuclear medicine, the β+-emitting 43Sc and β−-emitting 47Sc are promising
candidates in cancer diagnosis and targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT) due to their …

Target Development towards First Production of High-Molar- Activity 44gSc and 47Sc by Mass Separation at CERN-MEDICIS

E Mamis, C Duchemin, V Berlin, C Bernerd, M Bovigny… - Pharmaceuticals, 2024 - mdpi.com
The radionuclides 43Sc, 44 g/m Sc, and 47Sc can be produced cost-effectively in sufficient
yield for medical research and applications by irradiating nat Ti and nat V target materials …

Scandium-44: Diagnostic Feasibility in Tumor-Related Angiogenesis

G Trencsényi, Z Képes - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Angiogenesis-related cell-surface molecules, including integrins, aminopeptidase N,
vascular endothelial growth factor, and gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRPR), play a …

Robust electrochemical method for separation of theranostic 44Sc/47Sc pair of radiometals

S Patra, S Ghosh, D Banerjee, K Singh… - Separation and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Scandium-44/47 is one of the emerging theranostic pair of radiometals which can
revolutionize nuclear medicine procedures in both diagnosis as well as targeted …