What is radiopharmacy?
Radiopharmacy is a branch of pharmaceuticals dealing with radioactive drugs. It is also the name of a registered device that prepares and releases radioactive medicines. Radiopharmacy also stores and disposes of radioactive materials. The merger combines the key components to form a drug. Usually, radiopharmacy has a specialized laboratory for the production, designation and storage of any other radioactive drug. Radioisotope is a naturally occurring or artificially created radioactive form of element. Radioisotopes can be used to diagnose, investigate and examine and treat certain processes of the disease. They are also used for drugs used for things such as scanning of radioisotope, diagnostic procedure or radiotherapy, the possibility of cancer treatment. It is primarily used for diagnostic purposes or helps to identify certain problems or conditions within the body. However, radiopharmaceuticals are sometimes used as a form of therapy or treatment for specific diseases. This counts according to the ability of the drug to determine a specific targeted areaAST and remains there for some time. This type of radiopharmaceuticals is commonly called travelers or imaging substances.
The area identified with radioactive drug is then scanned by a specialized camera as a gamma camera. Depending on the nature of the test and the ability to take a camera, static or dynamic pictures. Static images identify things such as shape, size and presence of lesions. The lesion is a physical change that usually leads to an injury or illness.
dynamic images are used to determine the functioning of the organ. How well the function of organs can be determined according to how many trace or radiopharmaceuticals accumulate in the organ and how quickly it moves or cleans. The function of the authorities can also be evaluated by the amount of radioactivity issued by the body. This is determined through blood and urine samples.
radiopharmaceuticals can also be used for therapeutic treatment. Radioactive drugs can be used independentLE or in combination with chemotherapy, the use of chemicals to treat disease processes such as cancer. The primary purpose of this form of radiopharmacy called radiation therapy is the selective destruction of contaminated tissue to eradicate the disease.