The Radiochemical and Radiopharmaceutical Applications of Radium

Open Chemistry

Mamat Constantin¹  Gott Matthew¹  Steinbach Jörg¹ 

[1] Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf, 01328 Dresden, Germany;

关键词: alpha emitters;    radium;    radiochronology;    radiotracers;    radiotherapy;   

DOI  :  10.1515/chem-2016-0011

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This review focuses on the chemistry and application of radium isotopes to environmental monitoring, analytical, and medicinal uses. In recent years, radium has been used primarily as a tracer to study the migration of radioactive substances in environmental systems. Tracing the naturally occurring radium isotopes in mineral and water sources allows for the determination of source location, residence time, and concentrations. An understanding of the concentration of radionuclides in our food and water sources is essential to everyone’s health as alpha particle decay is highly damaging in vivo. Due to this high radiobiological effectiveness, there is increased interest in using alpha-emitting radionuclides to prepare new, therapeutic radiopharmaceutical drugs. Selected studies from the recent literature are provided as examples of these modern applications of radium isotopes.

【 授权许可】

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