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Partha Chaudhury on radiopharmaceuticals

Partha Chaudhury, chief of nuclear medicine at Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre in New Delhi, explains radiopharmaceuticals

What does the new radiopharmaceutical promise to do?
Technetium-99m (99mTc) is special due to its imaging characteristics, short half-life and its versatility to tag with it various kinds of radiopharmaceuticals for organ-specific imaging. It is the