Currently the Food and Drug Administration publishes radiopharmaceutical
information for physicians to choose appropriate medical diagnosis and therapy for their
patients. The primary functions of these radiopharmaceuticals are diagnosis and
delivering doses to a patient with appropriate energy, biological half life, chemical
behavior, and radiological half life. These radiopharmaceuticals preferentially react with
certain type of cells. Diagnosis or therapy must be accurately prepared for and planned
by medical professionals. The fast access to the internet has become a key tool for
medical professionals to obtain this type of information. A web page has been developed
that links nuclear and biological data to radiopharmaceutical information. Queries can be
performed on this database to sort the radiopharmaceuticals by radiological half life,
gamma energy, biological half life, medical application, chemical information or other
parameters. This capability allows medical professionals and scientists to select
radiopharmaceuticals by their characteristics. There are approximately 100 medical
isotopes in the database. / Graduation date: 2000
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/33159 |
| Date | 24 May 1999 |
| Creators | Jue, Tracy M. |
| Contributors | Binney, Stephen E. |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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