Radiopharmaceuticals

"Radiopharmaceuticals" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Compounds that are used in medicine as sources of radiation for radiotherapy and for diagnostic purposes. They have numerous uses in research and industry. (Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 30th ed, p1161)

Descriptor ID	D019275
MeSH Number(s)	D27.505.259.843 D27.505.519.871 D27.720.470.410.650
Concept/Terms	Radiopharmaceuticals Radiopharmaceuticals

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Chemicals and Drugs [D]
Chemical Actions and Uses [D27]
Pharmacologic Actions [D27.505]
Diagnostic Uses of Chemicals [D27.505.259]
Radiopharmaceuticals [D27.505.259.843]
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action [D27.505.519]
Radiopharmaceuticals [D27.505.519.871]
Specialty Uses of Chemicals [D27.720]
Laboratory Chemicals [D27.720.470]
Indicators and Reagents [D27.720.470.410]
Radiopharmaceuticals [D27.720.470.410.650]

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Bar chart showing 200 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 13 publications in 2012

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	0	1
1997	2	1	3
1998	3	3	6
1999	5	6	11
2000	7	3	10
2001	6	3	9
2002	4	5	9
2003	0	8	8
2004	2	5	7
2005	2	3	5
2006	2	6	8
2007	4	5	9
2008	1	11	12
2009	4	3	7
2010	3	2	5
2011	3	7	10
2012	6	7	13
2013	5	4	9
2014	4	2	6
2015	2	9	11
2016	3	3	6
2017	2	4	6
2018	1	2	3
2019	3	1	4
2020	2	1	3
2021	3	4	7
2022	0	2	2
2023	1	1	2
2024	4	3	7
2025	1	0	1

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Stauff E, Xu W, Kecskemethy HH, Langhans SA, Kandula VVR, Averill LW, Yue X. Tryptophan Kynurenine Pathway-Based Imaging Agents for Brain Disorders and Oncology-From Bench to Bedside. Biomolecules. 2025 01 01; 15(1).

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Ivanidze J, Sharbatdaran A, McCalla A, Brandmaier A, Andreopoulou E, Cristofanilli M, Cigler T, Balogun OD, Magge RS, Liechty B, Karakatsanis NA, Nehmeh SA, Agee MA, Jean J, Osborne JR, Beal K, Schwartz TH, Pannullo SC, Knisely JPS, Ramakrishna R. [18F]-Fluoroestradiol (FES) brain PET in the evaluation of patients with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer and known or suspected brain metastases. Eur J Radiol. 2024 Dec; 181:111791.

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Xu W, Langhans SA, Johnson DK, Stauff E, Kandula VVR, Kecskemethy HH, Averill LW, Yue X. Radiotracers for Molecular Imaging of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2. Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Aug 30; 25(17).

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Zhou W, Du L, Brown DB, Shah RP, Sze DY. Outcomes Analysis of Yttrium-90 Radioembolization for Tumors Other Than Metastatic Colorectal Cancer from the Radiation-Emitting SIR-Spheres in Nonresectable (RESiN) Registry. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2024 11; 35(11):1591-1600.e3.

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Heholt J, Patel R, Vedaei F, Zabrecky G, Wintering N, Monti DA, Wang Z, Newberg AB, Mohamed FB. Simultaneous arterial spin labeling functional MRI and fluorodeoxyglucose PET in mild chronic traumatic brain injury. J Neuroradiol. 2024 Sep; 51(5):101211.

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Kennedy AS, Brown DB, Fakih M, Jeyarajah R, Jones S, Liu D, Pinato DJ, Sangro B, Sharma NK, Sze DY, Van Cutsem E, Wasan HS. Multidisciplinary Delphi Consensus on Safety of Combining Transarterial Radioembolization with Yttrium-90 Microspheres with Systemic Anticancer Agents for the?Treatment of Liver Malignancy. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2024 09; 35(9):1253-1267.e1.

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Doyle PW, Workman CS, Grice JV, McGonigle TW, Huang S, Borgmann AJ, Baker JC, Duncan DP, Taylor JE, Brown DB. Predictive Dosimetry and Outcomes of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated by Yttrium-90 Resin Microsphere Radioembolization: A Retrospective Analysis Using Technetium-99m Macroaggregated Albumin SPECT/CT and Planning Software. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2024 05; 35(5):689-698.e3.

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Hansen CL, Farber J, Binder A, Reist K, Brailovsky Y. Conversion of PYP/HMDP scanning on sequential imaging in a patient with a TTR gene mutation. J Nucl Cardiol. 2024 07; 37:101780.

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Doyle PW, Workman CS, Grice JV, McGonigle TW, Huang S, Borgmann AJ, Baker JC, Taylor JE, Brown DB. Partition Dosimetry and Outcomes of Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors after Yttrium-90 Resin Microsphere Radioembolization. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2024 05; 35(5):699-708.

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Hansen CL. Improving evaluation for TTR amyloidosis by interactive filtering of Tc-99?m PYP SPECT images. The role for "clean blood pool" imaging. J Nucl Cardiol. 2023 12; 30(6):2418-2426.

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