Chapter
The Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry of Technetium-99m
Abstract
Technetium-99m (99mTc) is a radiometal that has nearly ideal nuclear properties for diagnostic nuclear medicine imaging, which has helped make it high impact and extensively utilized radionuclide in medicine. 99mTc-based imaging—which can be done using a simple gamma camera or a more advanced 3-D method known as single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)—has been a mainstay of diagnostic nuclear medicine for decades. In this chapter, we …
Authors
Rathmann SM; Ahmad Z; Slikboer S; Bilton HA; Snider DP; Valliant JF
Book title
Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry
Pagination
pp. 311-333
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
2019
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-98947-1_18